Garden Linux Maintainer / Developer (f/m/d)

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What you'll do

SAP aims to develop an Open Reference Architecture (ORA) for a secure and sustainable cloud edge infrastructure that includes intelligent optimization methods for data transparency and security. This reference infrastructure, aspired by the EU IPCEI-CIS (Important Project of Common European Interest – Next Generation Cloud Infrastructure and Services) program, shall be the basis for future software development and a prerequisite for a pan-European cloud edge infrastructure. 
SAP will be working on the publicly funded project with both experienced employees from its existing workforce but also new hires. Therefore, we are looking for suitable candidates. If you are interested in Cloud Operating System development and operation, the usage and further development of Open-Source solutions and standards, interoperability, efficiency, and sustainability you should consider applying.
 

As a Garden Linux Maintainer / Developer (f/m/d), you will be working in a highly skilled team and build and maintain an innovative Linux distribution dedicated and optimized for containerized and virtualized workloads with a strong focus on security. The activities range from creating build pipelines for Garden Linux releases over patching vulnerable Linux packages to creating specialized Garden Linux images for various stakeholders.

You will be closely working together with the Gardener (https://gardener.cloud), IronCore (https://github.com/ironcore-dev), as well as application teams at SAP to optimize Garden Linux. We emphasize engineering excellence, foster autonomous teamwork and a trust-based working model. Collaboration with other teams and Open-Source communities in an international environment will be a regular part of your work. If you are an experienced Linux enthusiast and interested in cutting-edge technology like Kubernetes and building-up an active Open-Source community, you will find an inspiring and professional environment for your learning and growth.

In more detail, you will:

• Maintain Garden Linux, addressing issues (features, bugs, security).
• Automate Continuous Integration (CI) pipelines for image builds. 
• Develop new features to enhance Garden Linux capabilities. 

What you bring

• Broad experience working with Linux-based systems. 
• Experience with Cloud Platforms such as Azure, AWS, GCP, AliCloud. 
• Hands-on experience with Linux containers (Docker, Podman, containerd). 
• Comfortable with CI systems (we use GitHub Actions heavily).
• Pro-active mindset with a solution-oriented approach. 
• Very good written and verbal English language skills. 
• Ideally, experience in working with Debian-based Operating Systems. 
• Experience in debugging issues with the Linux kernel and/or systemd is an advantage 
• Proficient programming skills in languages such as Python, Bash, C are preferred

Meet your team

The Garden Linux team is a team of Linux enthusiasts at SAP which has emerged from the Gardener and IronCore teams because of the need to have a minimalistic and highly secure Linux distribution for those projects. Our team is distributed across Walldorf and Munich. If you are also enthusiastic about Linux, we can’t wait to meet you and include you amongst our team of dedicated and diverse experts. If you work with us, you can expect the flexibility you need to bring in everything you are and everything you might become.
 

Garden Linux – What it is all about

Gardener is an Open-Source Kubernetes management solution by SAP. Gardener supports deploying Kubernetes clusters on different hyperscalers and proprietary virtualization platforms. Garden Linux is the operating system of choice for running containerized workloads at SAP. It is available for all virtualization platforms supported by Gardener on x86_64, with ARM support in the making. It is a minimalistic operating system based on Debian with the sole focus on running containers and virtual machines with maximum security. While Garden Linux is already hosting massive workloads there are still many ideas that we need to implement. If you’re curious, check out our open source repos at https://github.com/gardenlinux.    

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Requisition ID: 387669  | Work Area: Software Design and Development  | Expected Travel: 0 - 10%  | Career Status: Professional  | Employment Type: Regular full time or part time  |  #LI-Hybrid