About Us Always open. Our code, our culture, our opportunities. Leading open innovation without limits. We are SUSE. SUSE is a global leader in innovative, reliable, and secure enterprise open source solutions, including SUSE® Linux Suite, SUSE® Rancher Suite, SUSE® Edge Suite, and SUSE® AI Suite. More than 60% of the Fortune 500 rely on SUSE to power their mission-critical workloads, enabling them to innovate everywhere – from the data center to the cloud, to the edge and beyond. SUSE puts the “open” back in open source, collaborating with partners and communities to give customers the agility to tackle innovation challenges today and the freedom to evolve their strategy and solutions tomorrow. For more information, visit Job Description We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join the Rancher software engineering team, focusing on building innovative open source software in the container space. This role is key to enriching the user experience of cloud-native platforms like Kubernetes and simplifying containerized workload management. In particular, we are looking for someone to join the Rancher provisioning team to automate the full lifecycle of Kubernetes clusters — from initial deployment to ongoing management (day 2 operations) — utilizing the Cluster API (CAPI) project ( Our team at SUSE develops the Rancher product suite—open-source software addressing the operational and security challenges of managing cloud-native platforms. Rancher is a flagship product, trusted by Fortune 500 companies and others globally. SUSE is deeply committed to open source. In this role, you will contribute to major open source projects in the container ecosystem, including Kubernetes, Rancher, Turtles, Fleet, and Kubewarden, working with their communities to advance the state of the art. Curiosity and teamwork are two of the values that drive us as a development team. If you are passionate about these values too, you are likely a great fit for us. As a team, we’re con...