Senior Staff Software Engineer, Kernel

Minimum qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
• 8 years of experience in software development, and with data structures/algorithms.
• 5 years of experience with design and architecture; and testing/launching software products.

Preferred qualifications:

• Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field.
• Experience working with both Intel and ARM architectures, virtual machines, hypervisors and KVM, concurrency, multithreading and synchronization.

About the job

Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.

With your technical expertise you will manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. You will design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance software solutions.

The Production Linux Kernel team performs research, design, and development for our production Linux Kernel that powers all of Google’s fleet of machines that run our products and services, such as Search, Maps, YouTube, Gmail, and many others for the users.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

• Work with internal teams and the upstream Linux community to implement, port, and maintain various Google-specific features in the Linux Kernel.
• Contribute to the development of the upstream Linux Kernel and participate in the code review process.
• Provide guidance and participate in live patching of Linux Kernel, debug and fix issues that are uncovered in a broad range of Kernel qualification testing.
• Support the creation and release of Linux Kernel releases and provide technical support to internal Linux Kernel developers and customers.

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