Member of Technical Staff - Linux Kernel development
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
You’ll be working with a team of highly talented engineers across a spectrum of geographies and experience. The most successful candidate for this role will be someone who can:
- Constantly look for ways to improve the product, learning from customer questions and not limited to existing technologies.
- Devise solutions and back them up with solid research and numbers to prove their efficacy.
- Can convey ideas to a geographically diverse audience using excellent communication/writing skills.
- Participate in design discussions, often outside one’s known comfort zone -- learning on the go.
- Proactively mentor junior team members, finding ways to fuel their intellectual curiosity and leverage their unique strengths.
- Not hesitate to help with occasional customer escalations: Nutanix believes in putting customers first. While we have a huge, dedicated team to assist customers with any issues, there might be situations where engineering help might be sought to bail out a rare, unfortunate outage.
- Take pride in working with open-source communities to convert product improvements into community projects.
Engineering / R&D at Nutanix
Nutanix AHV builds on top of the open-source x86-KVM stack, emphasising performance, scale, and reliability. The hyper-converged nature of our stack provides the phenomenal potential for optimisations, cutting across various parts of our stack -- right from the kernel and ranging up to, but not limited by, the management layer.
We seek original thinkers who won't hesitate to demanding conventional thought in arriving at out-of-the-box solutions.
We aim to work as closely aligned with the open-source community as possible. Our engineers are highly encouraged to participate in open-source community development. Your work will be preserved as open-source commit(s) for posterity!
A day in the life of an AHV Hypervisor Engineer:
- Problems you’ll solve:
- We’ve always believed in demanding the status quo and disrupting ourselves to provide the best-in-class customer experience. A case in point: Nutanix is well known for giving a zero-touch upgrade experience to our customers. Within the hypervisor team, we are focussing on ways to make this faster and more reliable -- by pushing the limits of VM live migrations towards speed and predictability or rethinking why a hypervisor upgrade should need a reboot.
Your Role
- Rock-solid OS/systems fundamentals drive design and implementation.
- Low-level coding debugging experience with at least one hardware architecture, preferably x86.
- The ability to write and maintain enterprise-quality code.
- Deep reasoning and analytical skills provide top-down thinking to break down abstract concepts into actionable pieces.
- Proven feature delivery experience: should have 8+ years of hands-on experience in shipping enterprise-quality code to customers.
What You Will Bring
- Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software, preferably some with leadership experience.
- Knowledge of x86 virtualisation and the KVM stack.
- Code contributions to the Linux kernel/virtualisation stack are an added plus.
About the Team
About Your Manager:
You'll be reporting to Prerna Saxena (LinkedIn), our Senior Engineering Manager who has been with Nutanix since 2015. Prerna leads a team of 9 Engineers and provides guidance and support to help you succeed in your role.
What The Team Says:
The team is an amazing group to work with - supportive, collaborative, and all-around awesome. You'll find yourself fitting right in and enjoying the camaraderie and teamwork.
How We Work:
At Nutanix, we have a hybrid work environment, giving you the flexibility to work remotely as needed. We also have in-person meetings twice a week to connect with the team, brainstorm together, and ensure we're all on the same page. This balance allows for both autonomy and collaboration, creating a dynamic and efficient work environment.
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