Key skills
CloudLinuxRustCAIServerlessPerformance OptimizationCommunicationCollaboration
About this role
Role Overview
- Architect, build, and maintain the core infrastructure powering Unikraft Cloud—both hosted and on-prem.
- Design and implement the platform’s main components at scale (think: 100,000+ instances per server) with native support for scale-to-zero, autoscaling, and strong isolation.
- Optimize for performance, security, and reliability across diverse workloads—from serverless functions and AI agents to remote IDEs and telemetry backends.
- Provide input to and help design the platform’s technical roadmap.
Requirements
- Strong proficiency and programming skills in C, with a deep understanding of systems-level programming.
- Experience building and maintaining operating systems, embedded systems and/or device drivers.
- Familiarity with memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies like QEMU/KVM.
- Micro-VMMs like Cloud Hypervisor or Firecracker are a plus.
- Solid grasp of Linux (and Linux networking) internals and comfort working close to the kernel a plus.
- Excellent debugging skills.
- Experience with gcc, clang, and other C toolchains, build systems, and cross-compilation workflows.
- Experience with Rust a plus.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills — you’re comfortable working across functions and explaining technical details clearly.
Tech Stack
- Cloud
- Linux
- Rust
Benefits
- Remote-first from day one — work wherever you’re most productive.
- Competitive salary and opportunities for career development.
- Six weeks of total time off for you to use through the year.
- A generous equipment budget to spend on anything you need to do your best work.
- Fun-focused, in-person team retreats to recharge and build great relationships.