IBM R&D Linux Kernel & Virtualization KVM Development f/m/x 

Germany, Baden-Württemberg 

143260340

Your Role and Responsibilities
As a key member of our dynamic team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences.

Your responsibilities will comprise of design and specifications for new enhancements, coding (including test automation), problem determination and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream community repositories, and solving client problems. Your attendance at Open Source community meetings is recommended and supported, and client facing activities (e.g. client support, providing lectures at conferences) are possible. You will closely interact with the respective Open Source communities (“upstream integration” of your code) and our distribution partners (Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 3+ years of experience in open source development in one or more areas of KVM, Linux kernel, QEMU, libvirt, virtio, vfio
• 2+ years of experience in low-level/assembler development (preferably on non-x86 architectures)
• 2+ years of experience in operating systems and virtualization/hypervisor development
• Expert skills in operating systems internals (e.g. memory management & task scheduling, interrupts, device drivers)
• Expert skills in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins) skills
• English (fluent) and German (B1) language skills
• You are highly motivated

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Contributions to Open Source projects or Open Source maintainer status (for multiple years)
• Skills in current I/O technologies (e.g. PCI, NVMe, RDMA)
• Skills in virtualization and emulation (e.g. qemu TCG) technologies
• Skills in IBM Z architecture (“Principles of Operations”), Z assembler and I/O concepts
• Skills in embedded system architectures