Senior Kernel Software Engineer

1 month ago


London, United Kingdom European Recruitment Full time

Senior Kernel Engineer

As a Kernel Engineer you will be working on bleeding-edge technology at the forefront of this industry. The role will be expanding upon Hypervisor & Virtualization technologies, Linux Kernel, and Low-Level Embedded Systems. This is a great opportunity at the cross-roads of research and engineering to develop industry skills at one of the biggest global companies who are the quickest growing household name.

Further to this, affinity with Open Source software and the motivation to work on new and exciting proprietary technology would give you a huge advantage. This team are working with many different interesting projects and use cases such as operating systems, virtualization technologies (Cloud Native, SDN, NFV), performance optimization of system software and libraries, stability and reliability of large-scale data centres, including collaborative design of next-generation hardware and software. The company also actively participate in open-source communities and incorporate cutting-edge technology and innovation into their products.

Key Requirements:

  • Educated in relevant Computer Science discipline with industry experience of at least 5years.
  • Understanding and experience in Operating Systems and Virtualization technologies; prior work on QEMU, Xen or KVM.
  • Prior working experience especially in kernel debugging or community patch submission is preferred.
  • Experience in multi platform (x86, Arm, RISC-V) kernel and system development is preferred.
  • Knowledge of the implementation of virtualization technology (Xen / KVM, Qemu).
  • Understand the implementation of DPDK/VPP/OVS is a plus.
  • Strong knowledge of Linux, Microkernels and other industry Operating Systems.
  • Knowledge of the ARM x86 CPU architecture.

Key Words: Hypervisor / x86 / Linux Kernel / Operating Systems / Virtualization / Microkernels / CPU / GPU / Lightweight Virtualization / Embedded Systems / Network Virtualization / VMM / Virtual Machines

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