Open Source Engineering Lead for k0s

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 upst…