Senior Systems Engineer, CKS Performance
Core
Kernel expert debugging complex failures at the boundary of Linux kernel and Kubernetes/container orchestration stacks.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer (Linux Kernel & Container Runtime)
Builds
Production-grade Linux kernel patches, container runtime tooling, and diagnostics for large-scale GPU fleets.
Domain
Cloud Infrastructure / AI Compute / Linux Kernel Engineering
Deliverable
production ML models | infrastructure
Required skills
Linux kernel internals, C programming, cgroups (v1/v2), namespaces, kernel debugging (crash/gdb/kdump), container runtime stack (containerd/runc/kubelet/CRI)
Preferred skills
eBPF, kernel networking (TCP/IP/RDMA), GPU/DPU driver debugging, HPC/distributed systems, upstream contributions
Technologies
Linux kernel, Kubernetes, containerd, runc, kubelet, CRI, gdb, crash, kdump, eBPF
Responsibilities
Debug and fix kernel-level root causes for pod/container issues (memory, scheduling, cgroups), analyze kernel crashes/panics, develop upstream patches, build observability tooling, partner with hardware/platform teams on incident response.
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
