Senior Linux Kernel Engineer for GPU Compute

ByteDance; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance in Singapore seeks a senior systems software engineer to own Linux kernel features for production compute platforms, bridging the hardware/software boundary and delivering reliability, performance, and security improvements.

You will diagnose complex production issues, review low-level code, and collaborate with silicon, firmware, validation, and platform teams while contributing patches upstream when appropriate.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
• Deep understanding of operating-system fundamentals, including concurrency, memory management, scheduling, interrupts, synchronization, and device I/O.
• 3+ years of professional experience developing systems software in C, with working knowledge of C++ and scripting languages used for automation and diagnostics.
• Hands-on Linux kernel development or debugging experience in one or more areas such as device drivers, platform enablement, virtualization, networking, security, power management, or core kernel infrastructure.
• Demonstrated ownership of production-quality software, including testing, code review, incident diagnosis, and sustained maintenance.
• Clear written and verbal communication across hardware and software disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Backport, design, implement, optimize, and maintain Linux kernel components and associated user-space interfaces for production compute platforms.
• Own complex features through requirements, design review, coding, integration, validation, rollout, and post-deployment support.
• Debug kernel crashes, hangs, race conditions, memory corruption, boot failures, performance regressions, and hardware/software interaction defects from the production environment in real cases.
• Analyze traces, logs, crash dumps, performance counters, and workload behavior to identify root causes and verify corrective action.
• Improve observability and diagnostic tooling for field issues, and develop automated unit, integration, stress, fault-injection, and regression tests;
• Partner with silicon, firmware, security, validation, platform, and production teams to enable new hardware and resolve cross-layer defects.
• Contribute patches and technical discussions upstream when upstream adoption is the appropriate long-term path; maintain downstream changes responsibly when it is not.
• Review designs and code, document operational constraints, and share practical kernel-debugging knowledge with the team and partner team.

Skills

Operating-system fundamentals

C programming

C++

Scripting languages

Linux kernel development

Production-quality ownership

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in a relevant field

Tools

ftrace

perf

eBPF

kdump

Job description

ByteDance in Singapore seeks a senior systems software engineer to own Linux kernel features for production compute platforms, bridging the hardware/software boundary and delivering reliability, performance, and security improvements.

You will diagnose complex production issues, review low-level code, and collaborate with silicon, firmware, validation, and platform teams while contributing patches upstream when appropriate.