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Company

DigitalOcean · 15 hours ago

Senior Engineer II (Virtualization)

Austin

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

$170K/yr - $185K/yr

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Responsibilities

Work to root cause and eliminate Virtual Machine downtime or performance issues in our production fleet

Collaborate with open source Linux, QEMU and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies and incorporate them into the DO fleet.

Work with cross team partners to unlock possibilities within our virtualization stack, as it relates to performance, security, GPU, migrations and overall fleet management.

Document, measure and report metrics over time such as performance, failures, API utilization and version info.

Contribute to continuous patch management efforts. Build, backport and deploy patches to our virtualization stack as needed.

Suggest and Implement improvements to our code release pipelines.

Qualification

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Linux virtualizationKVMQEMULibvirtC/C++Security best practicesIntel virtualizationAMD virtualizationPerformance optimization

Required

Significant experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel and libvirt.

Strong proficiency in C/C++.

Proven track record of solving problems at scale.

A strong security mindset.

Terrific cross team collaborator.

Experience with Intel and AMD virtualization.

Benefits

Reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education

Access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses

Work from home stipend

Wellness allowance

Flexible time off policy

Equity compensation to eligible employees

Equity grants upon hire

Option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program

Company

DigitalOcean

Glassdoor

3.9

DigitalOcean provides a cloud platform to deploy, manage, and scale applications of any size.

Founded in 2012

New York, New York, USA

1,001-5,000 employees

http://www.digitalocean.com

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