For over a decade now, OpenNebula Systems has been leading the development of the European open source technology that helps organizations around the world to manage their corporate data centers and build their Enterprise Clouds.

If you want to join an established leader in the cloud infrastructure industry and the global open source community, keep reading, because you can now join a team of exceptionally passionate and talented colleagues whose mission is to help the world's leading enterprises to implement their next-generation edge and cloud strategies. We are hiring!

Since 2019, and thanks to the support from the European Commission, OpenNebula Systems has been leading the edge computing innovation in Europe, investing heavily in research and open source development, and playing a key role in strategic EU initiatives such as the IPCEI-CIS and the “European Alliance for Industrial Data, Edge and Cloud”.

We are currently looking for a Cloud Systems Developer specialized in Confidential Computing to come and join us in Europe as part of our new team developing the next generation management platform for the Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum.

Job Description

Cloud Systems Developers - Confidential Computing - are responsible for coding the integrations needed to enable end-to-end Confidential Computing across a highly distributed computing continuum, ensuring complete data security - whether data is at rest, in transit, or in use. The goal is to bring confidentiality to the entire data lifecycle, making sure data is protected during storage, transmission, and processing. This will enable the secure integration of untrusted resources, whether from public cloud providers or on-premises edge locations, and support secure interoperability between cloud systems.

Systems Developers focus on ensuring that cloud management products align with project and business goals, comply with best practices, and meet performance requirements. You’ll work in an agile environment to design, develop, test, maintain and validate with use cases a next generation management platform for the Cloud-Edge Computing Continuum. You will also participate in the upstream community, on challenging projects developing innovative edge/cloud systems. Applicants should be passionate about the future of the software defined datacenter, distributed systems, and open source.

What you will do 

• Be the Subject Matter Expert on confidential virtualization
• Design, develop, and implement high-quality confidential cloud-edge environments that meet security and performance standards
• Design, develop and maintain OpenNebula components to enable its integration with confidential virtualization
• Provide technical direction and leadership around developing tools and SDKs for distributed computing platforms to run confidential VMs
• Support software development on Confidential Computing platforms, helping to define the best interface to consume confidential computing functionality.
• Evaluating the performance of confidential distributed cloud systems to identify bottlenecks and bugs
• Test-driven development of large-scale confidential cloud-edge solutions integrating and extending open source products, and using Git based workflows to develop new features in the project repositories
• Stay current with emerging technologies and industry trends in security and confidential computing.
• Writing and maintaining software documentation and supporting the creation of dissemination material (webinars, blog posts, white papers, etc).
• Working with user use cases to test, debug, and troubleshoot software, assuring quality and functionality
• Working with other companies in the cloud-edge ecosystem within international projects and open-source communities. Availability to occasional travel and participation in international events and meetings
• Working with the integration and deployment teams in support and issue troubleshooting and triage, the use cases and solutions team in discovery and demo sessions, and the community team in contributions to the open-source community

What you will bring

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• Hands-on experience in cloud systems development and integration for cloud computing using open-source technologies.
• Hands-on professional experience in Confidential Computing technology (e.g., Intel SGX, AMD SEV-SNP, Intel TDX, etc.)
• Experience in designing, developing and maintaining Ruby code base for system applications with knowledge of computing systems integration and the interaction with the operating system facilities like I/O, networking and virtualization
• Experience integrating computing systems specially related to virtualization, storage and networking
• Knowledge of KVM/QEMU virtualization including qcow2 and management of Virtual Machines
• Experience with Cloud Management platforms and their associated technologies. Understand the implication of managing virtualized infrastructures and the orchestration of the underlying subsystems

What's in it for me?

Some of our benefits and perks vary depending on location and employment type, but we are proud to provide employees with the following;

• Competitive compensation package and flexible remuneration: Meals, Transport, Nursery/Childcare
• Customized workstation (macOS, Windows, Linux)
• Private health insurance
• Paid time off: Holidays, Personal Time, Sick Time, Parental leave
• Afternoon-off working day every friday and during summer
• Remote company with bright HQ centrally located in Madrid; offices in Boston (USA), Brussels (Belgium) and Brno (Czech Republic); and access to office space near your location when needed. During the first year, for onboarding purposes, and for participation on certain projects, employees should be able to attend events and face-to-face meetings in our Madrid offices and other European cities. All employees are also required to attend our company-wide face-to-face all-hands meetings twice a year
• Healthy work-life balance: We encourage the right for Digital Disconnecting and promote harmony between employees personal and professional lives
• Flexible hiring options: Full Time/Part Time, Employee (Spain/USA) / Contractor (other locations)
• We are building an awesome, Engineering First Culture and your opinion matters: Thrive in the high-energy environment of a young company where openness, collaboration, risk-taking, and continuous growth are valued
• Be exposed to a broad technology ecosystem. We encourage learning and researching new technologies and methods as part of your everyday duties