Software Python Engineer

• Build Python services and APIs for the lifecycle of GPU virtual machines and bare-metal servers.
• Develop workflows for provisioning, placement, maintenance, quarantine, and recovery.
• Improve how capacity is tracked, scheduled, and made available to customers.
• Integrate new GPU servers and configurations into OpenStack and connect them with Gcore’s Kubernetes services.
• Automate host validation, image preparation, driver installation, and production readiness checks.
• Improve testing, observability, deployment safety, and operational tooling.
• Investigate production issues across the control plane, hypervisors, networking, storage, and hardware.
• Work closely with compute, Kubernetes, networking, SRE, hardware, and product teams.
• Own projects from design and implementation through rollout and production operation.

• 5+ years of experience writing reliable, well-tested production code.
• Strong Python skills and experience building APIs, backend services, or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience with OpenStack or another cloud control plane.
• Good understanding of Linux, networking, and compute virtualization.
• Practical experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.
• Experience owning production services where reliability and scale are important.
• Ability to debug complex problems across multiple layers of a system.
• Good communication skills and a collaborative approach to engineering.

Nice to have

• Experience with KVM, QEMU, libvirt, PCI passthrough, vGPU, or MIG.
• Experience with NVIDIA drivers, CUDA, NVML, DCGM, GPU Operator, or Kubernetes device plugins.
• Experience with bare-metal provisioning, BMC, Redfish, firmware, or hardware validation.
• Experience with Ceph, InfiniBand, RDMA, RoCE, or GPUDirect.
• Experience with Terraform, Ansible, Helm, GitOps, or CI/CD tooling.
• Experience with Go or another systems programming language.
• Contributions to OpenStack, Kubernetes, Linux, or other open-source infrastructure projects.

At Gcore, we want you to do your best work and enjoy the journey. Our benefits are designed to support your growth, well-being, and life beyond work:

• Competitive salary
• Flexible working hours
• Remote, hybrid, or office work options depending on your role
• Work from anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per year
• Private medical insurance for you and your family*
• 5 additional vacation days*
• Additional fully paid sick leave days*
• Allowance for significant life events and birthdays
• Language classes
• Modern office space with free snacks, drink and entertainment options*
• Team sports activities*

*Please be aware that this benefit may vary depending on your country.