Software Engineer (Virtualisation/Hypervisor)

TL;DR

Software Engineer (Virtualisation/Hypervisor): Design and maintain AHV features, interacting with Open Source communities. Focus on making AHV highly reliable, performant and secure, solve datacenter management problems and come up with innovative solutions.

Location: Must be based in Cambridge, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global provides a cloud operating system for building and managing enterprise-class applications in both private and public clouds.

What you will do

• Design, develop, and maintain AHV features, often interacting with Open Source communities.
• Constantly push towards making AHV highly reliable, performant and secure.
• Be passionate about datacenter management problems and strive to come up with innovative solutions.
• Lead the development of features from concept to market, often interacting with cross-functional areas such as product management, sales, and support.
• Mentor other software engineers.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, and/or PhD degree in Computer Science (preferred) or another technical discipline/equivalent experience.
• 3+ years of industry experience or equivalent research experience.
• Rock solid coding skills in C and Python, ideally for enterprise-quality software.
• Extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux.
• Familiarity with OS internals and concepts of distributed systems.
• Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualisation, and/or storage and network management.

Nice to have

• Coding skills in Rust and GoLang are desired, but not necessary.
• Familiarity with KVM and QEMU is preferred.
• Experience in interaction with open source communities is preferred.

Culture & Benefits

• Inclusive working environment that enables all Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment.
• Persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations.