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Staff Engineer - Linux kernel Developer

USA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-07 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and implement performance, scale, reliability, live migration, and upgrade improvements for the AHV hypervisor stack.

Role type

Staff Linux kernel and hypervisor engineer

Builds

AHV hypervisor stack components for enterprise virtualization

Domain

Cloud infrastructure / Systems programming / Virtualization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Linux kernel development, x86 architecture, KVM stack, low-level systems coding, debugging, enterprise software architecture, technical analysis, open-source contribution

Preferred skills

x86 virtualization, Linux kernel contributions, virtualization stack contributions

Technologies

Linux kernel, KVM, x86

Responsibilities

Design and implement performance, scale, reliability, live migration, and upgrade improvements for the AHV hypervisor stack; Perform low-level coding, debugging, and systems development across hardware architectures; Research solutions and support design decisions with data and technical analysis; Mentor junior engineers and contribute to their technical development; Support occasional customer escalations involving rare or severe outages; Contribute product improvements to open-source community projects

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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