Software Engineer OpenStack

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join our OpenStack team in Brno Czech Republic. You will work on the Compute layer of OpenStack developing maintaining and improving Nova the service that provisions and manages virtual machines at scale across large distributed infrastructure.

If you want to learn more about what the team does you can have a look at the following links:

you will do:

• Develop and maintain features in OpenStack Nova (compute API scheduling hypervisor integration resource tracking)

• Write clean well-tested Python code following OpenStack community standards

• Participate in upstream code reviews and engage with the OpenStack community development process

• Debug complex issues spanning hypervisors messaging queues and distributed compute systems

• Collaborate with operators Quality Engineers and platform engineering teams across time zones

• Contribute to design specifications and architectural decisions within the Nova project

What you will bring:

• 3 years of professional software development experience

• Strong Python skills with experience in large complex codebases

• Solid understanding of distributed systems concurrency and cloud computing concepts

• Familiarity with virtual machines hypervisors (KVM/libvirt) or compute infrastructure

• Familiarity with REST APIs and message queue systems (e.g. RabbitMQ Oslo messaging)

• Experience with Git-based workflows and code review processes

• Strong written English for asynchronous globally distributed collaboration

The following are considered a plus:

• Experience contributing to OpenStack or other large open source projects (commit history reviews or spec authorship)

• Experience working in Agentic SDLC workflows using AI coding assistants or agent-driven development pipelines in day-to-day engineering

• Background in CI/CD for large open source projects (Zuul Tox Tempest)

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