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Staff Engineer - Linux & Kernel

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

Core

Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and reliable hypervisor and systems software, focusing on improving virtual machine live migration speed and predictability.

Role type

Staff Engineer (Linux & Kernel)

Builds

Hypervisor and systems software

Domain

Cloud infrastructure / Virtualization

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Low-level coding and debugging, x86 architecture knowledge, enterprise-grade software development, Linux kernel development, KVM stack knowledge, mentoring junior engineers

Preferred skills

Contributions to open-source Linux kernel or virtualization stack

Technologies

Linux, KVM, x86

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-performance hypervisor software, improve virtual machine live migration speed and predictability, develop reboot-free hypervisor upgrade approaches, mentor junior engineers, collaborate with distributed engineering teams, assist with customer escalations and outage investigations

Seniority

Staff, hands-on IC with mentorship

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