IBM Linux Kernel Developer 

United States, Washington, Bellevue 

147624392

Your responsibilities will comprise of design and specifications for new enhancements, coding, 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).

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• 5 years of experience in Open Source development in one or more areas of Linux Kernel, KVM, QEMU, virtio
• 3 years of experience in low-level/assembler development on Arm architectures (preferably 64bit)
• 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

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 technologies (e.g. QEMU TCG)
• Skills in platform and I/O device management (e.g. UEFI, ACPI)
• You are highly motivated
• Demonstrated communication skills