Senior Kernel Engineer

4 weeks ago


London, United Kingdom European Recruitment Full time

Senior Kernel Engineer - OpenSource Development

You will join a team of highly skilled operating systems and virtualization experts, acting as one of the senior engineers of the team. You will analyse, and advance the state-of-the-art of OS technologies and system software, especially those integrated in the Linux kernel with your many years experience in this area of expertise. This includes providing substantial contribution to the Linux kernel and related projects, consolidating and enhancing the companies position in the major OS and system communities.

The key competencies are as follows:

  • You have minimum 5 years of experience with various engineering projects and working as a R&D professional or Engineer.
  • Familiarity with the Linux environment, command line, remote shell, scripting and collaboration tools including Kernel internals.
  • Strong understanding of established virtualization frameworks like KVM, QEMU, Xen or Virtio.
  • You understand the overall architecture of the Linux Kernel and of embedded real time operating systems and familiar with FreeRTOS.
  • Contributions, upstreams and commits to the OpenSource community is beneficial.
  • Proficient with various programming languages such as C/C++ - Go, RUST or Python is a plus.

Key Words: Linux Kernel / Operating Systems / Android / Linux / Kernel / Device Driver / Virtualization / KVM / Virtio / RTOS / FreeRTOS / QNX / Agile / Embedded Systems / QEMU / Xen / C/C++ / Python / Go

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