Experience Senior · 6+ yrs (5+ years)
About the role
structured by ORIContribute to the Container Instances Data Plane team, designing, building, and maintaining production-grade Linux hypervisor and guest operating system images used to run containerized workloads. This position is based in Nashville, TN.
What you will do
- Contribute to the Container Instances Data Plane team, designing, building, and maintaining production-grade Linux hypervisor and guest operating system images used to run containerized workloads.
- Develop and maintain automated processes for creating, customizing, validating, and publishing Linux images in formats such as qcow2.
- Customize Linux operating systems at the kernel, systemd, networking, storage, security and package-management layers to meet platform requirements.
- Build and maintain RPM packages, software repositories, boot configurations and image composition workflows using DNF/YUM and, where applicable, OSTree-based technologies.
- Develop and maintain hypervisor and lifecycle-management components in Java, Go and shell scripting.
What they are looking for
- BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- 6+ years of experience building and operating production software systems, preferably distributed systems or cloud services.
- Strong system administration experience in Linux , including bash/shell scripting .
- Strong programming experience in Java or Go .
- Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networking, and distributed systems.
- Experience working with containers, Docker, Kubernetes, or related cloud-native technologies.
- Experience with CI/CD systems, automated testing, and modern software development practices.
- Experience using AI-assisted software development tools to improve engineering productivity across coding, testing, debugging, and documentation while maintaining high standards for code quality, security, and engineering judgment.
- Experience using Terraform for Infrastructure as Code
- Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
- Excellent communication skills with a strong sense of ownership and the ability to collaborate effectively across teams.
- Experience operating highly available production services, including on-call rotations, incident response, and driving operational excellence.
Nice to have
- Experience with QEMU/KVM: launching and managing VMs, working with virtual devices like virtio-net and virtio-iscsi, performance profiling, troubleshooting.
- Experience with container technologies like Docker or OCI containers and container runtimes such as crio, containerd/runc.
- Strong knowledge of Linux internals: namespaces, cgroups (v1 & v2), networking, and storage subsystems
- Hands-on experience with systemd: writing and managing unit files, controlling resource allocation, and understanding service lifecycles
- Ability to set up Linux bridges, veth pairs, and configure custom network namespaces and routing
- Experience with block storage: LUKS encryption, LVM logical volumes, and virtual disk provisioning (e.g., virtio-iscsi)
- Familiarity with security best practices for virtual machines and containers, including disk encryption and secure bootstrapping
- Experience in debugging with tools like strace, tcpdump, or wireshark, and analyzing logs. Ability to analyze core dumps with gdb would be a plus.
Benefits
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance, including expert medical opinion
- Short term disability and long term disability
- Life insurance and AD&D
- Supplemental life insurance (Employee/Spouse/Child)
- Health care and dependent care Flexible Spending Accounts
LinuxJavaGoShell scriptingBashVirtualizationHypervisor developmentSystem administrationQEMUKVMDockerKubernetesTerraformsystemdvirtioDNF
Full posting text
Contribute to the Container Instances Data Plane team, designing, building, and maintaining production-grade Linux hypervisor and guest operating system images used to run containerized workloads. This position is based in Nashville, TN. Relocation assistance can be offered.
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