Full-time, remote within US, UK
Ksplice is a key technology in Oracle's Linux offering and powers our engineered systems and public cloud, patching the Linux kernel, user-space and virtualization stack without any downtime. We're a distributed team of engineers forming part of the Linux and Virtualization group at Oracle with a passion for working on exciting technology, software engineering and all things Linux.
We're looking for a systems engineer to help scale as we continue to expand into the Linux stack, developing custom tooling and automation for patching thousands of kernels, hypervisors and packages to rapidly respond to security updates. This is a varied role that will see you building Python based tools to manage large numbers of virtual machines, writing C based patching and analysis tools and debugging hard problems in a variety of Linux distributions.
Required skills include:
  * Experience building complex systems in Python or other systems languages.
  * Strong understanding of low-level programming in C/C++ and associated tooling.
  * Experience of Linux virtualization solutions including KVM/libvirt+Xen.

Other useful skills include:
  * Experience developing the Linux kernel or other low-level applications.
  * Performance tuning and optimization.
  * Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
  * Familiarity with configuration managment tools such as Puppet/Chef/Ansible.
  * Experience in developing cloud native solutions.

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