Staff Engineer - Linux & Kernel

Nutanix; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 2,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutanix is looking for an AHV hypervisor engineer in Bengaluru, India. The ideal candidate will have deep OS fundamentals and 8+ years of experience in delivering enterprise-quality code. You will work with a diverse team to disrupt conventional thinking and drive product improvements, engaging with open-source communities. Responsibilities include mentoring junior engineers and ensuring customer satisfaction through innovative solutions. Knowledge of the KVM stack is a plus.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of hands-on experience shipping enterprise-quality code.
• Ability to convey ideas to a geographically diverse audience.
• Experience with x86 architecture and virtualization.

Responsibilities

• Constantly seek ways to improve the product.
• Participate in design discussions.
• Mentor junior engineers and assist customers when needed.

Skills

OS/systems fundamentals

Low-level coding and debugging

Communication/writing skills

Mentoring junior members

Customer-focused problem solving

Education

Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or equivalent

Job description

Overview

The Opportunity Nutanix AHV builds on top of the open-source x86-KVM stack, with an emphasis on performance, scale, and reliability. The hyperconverged nature of our stack provides the phenomenal potential for optimizations cutting across various parts of our stack -- right from the kernel and ranging up to, but not limited by, the management layer.

Team and Work Style

We are looking for original thinkers who won't hesitate to demand 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. Any work you do 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 providing a zero-touch upgrade experience for our customers. Within the hypervisor team, we are focussing on various 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 at all.

Role

You’ll be working with a team of extremely 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.
• Have the ability to 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 members of the team, finding ways to fuel their intelligent curiosity and leverage their unique strengths.
• Not hesitate to help out 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 fold product improvements back into community projects.

What You Will Bring

• The must-haves:
  • Rock-solid OS/systems fundamentals drive design and implementation.
  • Low-level coding and debugging experience with at least one hardware architecture, preferably x86.
  • The ability to write and maintain enterprise-quality code.
  • Deep reasoning and detailed skills, which provide top-down thinking to break down abstract concepts into actionable pieces.
  • Proven feature delivery experience: should have 8+ years of hands-on experience of what it means to ship enterprise-quality code to customers.
• The good-to-haves:
  • Knowledge of x86 virtualization and the KVM stack.
  • Code contributions to the Linux kernel/virtualization stack is an added plus.

Desired Qualification & Experience

• Bachelor's/Master's degree in computer science or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software, preferably some with guide experience.