Linux Kernel OS Developer

Introduction

Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open Source? Did you just graduate and are eager to become part of an worldwide development community? Your favorites are Linux and low-level programming? If so, our team is the right place for you!

We are building up an IBM team in the entirely new development location Waterford. The team will be responsible for enhancing the Linux kernel for IBM Z / IBM LinuxOne. This will include device drivers, new processor instructions, virtualization (KVM), confidential cotainers, and test automation (CI/CD).

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a key member of our new team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences.

Your responsibilities will comprise of design and specifications for new enhancements, coding, problem determination and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream community repositories, and solving client problems.

This position requires working onsite 3 days per week.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

Strong desire to work on low-level software development within the Linux operating system kernel (e.g. based on C/C++)

Interested in joining open source development communities

Understanding of operating systems internals (e.g. memory management & task scheduling, interrupts, device drivers)

Experience in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

Previous contributions to Open Source projects

Skills in current I/O technologies (e.g. PCI, NVMe, RDMA)

Skills in IBM Z architecture (“Principles of Operations”), Z assembler and I/O concepts