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Damco Solutions

Openstack Engineer

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

... Engineer to deploy and manage OpenStack environments. The role involves implementing Ceph ... automating virtual machine migrations. Responsibilities : • Deploy and manage OpenStack ...

Onyx Point, Inc.

System Engineer 2-BP-146

Hanover, MD · On-site

$78K - $250K/yr

Red Hat 6, 7, 8, and 9 • Experience with Grafana and Naemon • Virtual Machine - Hypervisor • ... A Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering ...

Apex Systems

Machine Learning Engineer

Jersey City, NJ · On-site

Job#: 3049321 Machine Learning Engineer Location: Jersey City, New Jersey (Onsite) Employment Type ... Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. Click for more details.

Booz Allen Hamilton

Machine Learning Engineer

Aurora, CO · On-site

$77K - $176K/yr

Machine Learning Engineer The Opportunity: As a programmer, you know that machine learning is ... virtual) is prohibited unless permission is explicitly provided . Work Model Our people-first ...

Onyx Point, Inc.

System Engineer 2-BP-146

Hanover, MD · On-site

$150 - $200/hr

Oversee cross-platform virtual machine lifecycles across Linux hypervisor environments (possibly ... A Bachelor's degree in System Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering ...

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Senior Software Engineer II Virtualization

Seattle, WA • On-site

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$150 - $200/hr

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Posted 22 days ago

Job description

DigitalOcean seeks a Senior Software Engineer II to work on the virtualization stack that powers their Droplet virtual machine product. You will design, develop, and maintain low-level software systems that host every DigitalOcean droplet at extreme scale, collaborating across hardware, kernel, performance, and observability teams.

What You’ll Do
  • Design, develop, test, and implement the IT systems underlying DigitalOcean's core virtual machine (Droplet) product
  • Maintain and evolve the low-level virtual machine stack while preparing it to support future software updates and new hardware
  • Collaborate with open source Linux, QEMU, and libvirt communities to drive the evolution of Linux virtualization technologies and incorporate them into the DigitalOcean fleet
  • Accelerate the virtualization of next-generation GPU-enabled platforms that power AI/ML workloads
  • Backport, build, and deploy software patches to support new features, fix bugs, and resolve security issues; contribute to on-call rotation
What You Need
  • Strong understanding of Linux-based operating systems with comfortable development and operation experience on Linux
  • Deep experience with the internals of QEMU, KVM, Linux kernel, and libvirt
  • Strong proficiency in C
  • Proven track record of solving problems at scale
  • Strong security mindset and proactive approach to identifying and implementing security best practices; excellent cross-team collaboration skills
Nice to Have
  • Experience with Debian packaging
  • Experience with Go, Python, and/or Ruby
  • Experience with Chef, AWX, and/or Kubernetes
  • Experience with GPU virtualization and Firecracker microVMs

Salary range $167,000-209,000 plus potential bonus and equity compensation; competitive benefits including professional development reimbursement, LinkedIn Learning access, flexible time off, and Employee Stock Purchase Program eligibility

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