IBM R&D Back-End Developer Linux/KVM Operating System Development m/w/x 

Germany, Baden-Württemberg 

602712301

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, 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).

In this job offering, we are looking for a new team member to grow our Linux Kernel & KVM squads.
– skills in Operating Systems internals (e.g. memory management, process scheduling, SMP, interrupts)
– 2+ years of experience in open source development in one or more areas of Linux kernel, KVM, QEMU, libvirt, virtio, vfio
– Experience in low-level/assembler development for embedded systems (non-x86)
– Expert skills in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins) skills
– You are highly motivated
– English (fluent) and German (B1) language skills
– Contributions to Open Source projects or Open Source maintainer status (for multiple years)
– Skills in virtualization/hypervisor development and emulation (e.g. qemu TCG) technologies
– Skills in current I/O technologies (e.g. PCI, NVMe, RDMA)
– Skills in platform and I/O device management (e.g. UEFI, ACPI)
– Skills in IBM Z architecture (“Principles of Operations”), Z assembler and I/O concepts
– Skills in embedded system architectures