Career Evolutions is searching for a Linux Kernel Engineer for a fast growing Global Hi-Tech company. Full-time, Direct-Hire, Remote Opportunity with competitive compensation.
If you’re looking to join a fast-growing high-tech company where your work on the next generation of solutions with a direct impact on the organization and its customers then this may be the right opportunity for you.
As part of the Kernel Team, you will be responsible for maintaining all supported Ubuntu Linux Kernels, managing a growing list custom flavors of Ubuntu Linux kernels, tracking and contributing to upstream kernel development, as well as driving development of the upcoming Ubuntu kernel releases. One area of increased focus in Linux kernel performance, where we are expanding the team.
We are looking for early-career individuals who are passionate about a career in Linux in general and have a strong interest in the kernel.
Responsibilities
Collaborating regularly and proactively with a distributed team
Learn how we develop and release our kernels via our SRU process
Collaborate as needed with the Open Source Community and Canonical/Ubuntu partners, participating in issue management, design discussions and reviews
Diagnose and fix functional, performance and scalability problems in the Linux kernel
Develop, automate and run unit and functional tests for the code developed
Development of tooling, automation and test architectures
Delivering high-quality maintainable software for all your work
Requirements
Be a Recent Graduate or Early in Career
Linux Kernel and Kernel subsystem working knowledge and experience
Knowledge one or more Linux Shells such as Bash, Commands, Scripting, etc.
Experience developing with Python and C Programming languages
Experience analyzing software performance issues and implementing improvements
Experience developing and performing software unit testing
Demonstrated ability to function effectively as part of a distributed team
Knowledge of Virtualization technologies (VMWare, Xen, KVM OpenStack, VirtualBox) (PLUS)
Understanding and Experience with tooling like Git and GCC (PLUS)
Experience with Debian Linux packaging (PLUS)
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