Job Description

Responsibilities
Engineering & Team Leadership
- Lead, mentor, and develop a distributed team of engineers working on k0s, k0smotron, and related Kubernetes technologies.
- Establish clear engineering priorities, ownership, and expectations while giving experienced engineers the autonomy to solve difficult problems.
- Conduct regular 1:1s, provide actionable feedback, support career development, and participate in hiring and onboarding.
- Build an engineering culture based on technical excellence, pragmatism, transparency, collaboration, and ownership.
- Develop additional technical leaders and maintainers so that critical project knowledge and ownership are distributed across the team and community.

Kubernetes Technical & Release Leadership
- Provide technical direction for k0s and related projects while working collaboratively with maintainers and the broader community.
- Participate directly in architecture and design discussions, code and pull-request reviews, issue triage, debugging, and technical decision making.




- Maintain deep expertise in Kubernetes architecture, control-plane components, lifecycle management, networking, storage, security, scheduling, and distributed systems.
- Track upstream Kubernetes development and ensure relevant capabilities, architectural changes, deprecations, and requirements are incorporated into the k0s roadmap.
- Drive engineering quality across testing, CI/CD, release engineering, upgradeability, security, observability, performance, and operational reliability.
- Balance architectural improvement and technical debt against features, community needs, ecosystem evolution, and Mirantis product requirements.

Open Source, CNCF & Community Leadership
- Act as a senior maintainer and visible technical leader within the k0s and k0smotron open source communities.
- Partner with the Community Manager and project maintainers to drive k0s through CNCF maturity from Sandbox through Incubation toward Graduation. This inc

📌 Open Source Engineering Lead for k0s (Madrid)
🏢 Mirantis
📍 Madrid