Scope. Kernel subsystems, device drivers, board support packages, hardware interfaces, memory management, scheduling, and the code that runs before user space does.
Not here. Kernel-bypass data planes are filed under networking, hypervisor and container isolation under virtualization, and firmware that never boots a general-purpose kernel under embedded.
Languages named on these postings. Rust (30), C++ (27), Go (11), C (6), Assembly (5).
Hiring most into this area. OpenAI (9), Canonical (6), Tenstorrent (5), Cloudflare (4), Cohere (3).
Operating System Kernel Engineer
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Operating System Networking Engineer
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Operating System Virtualization Engineer
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Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
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Site Reliability Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
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Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure
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Senior Security Engineer, Docker Desktop
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Member of Technical Staff - Systems
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Member of Technical Staff - Systems
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Software Engineer, Compute Infrastructure
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Staff Software Engineer, Platform Infrastructure (Foundations)
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Kernel Driver Software Engineer
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System Software Engineer - Linux Kernel and Device Drivers
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Software Engineer, II - Operating System
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Senior Developer (Windows), Product Security
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C++ Mission Software Engineer, Mission Autonomy
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Platform Security Engineering, Operating Systems
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OS / K8s Systems Engineer
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C++/Rust Graphics and Windowing System Software Engineer - Mir
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Junior Linux Kernel Engineer - Ubuntu
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Lead Linux Kernel Engineer - Ubuntu
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Linux Devices Software Engineer
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Linux Kernel Engineer
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Ubuntu Linux Kernel Engineer - BIOS/Firmware
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Kernel Engineer
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72 more roles touch kernel & drivers without being filed under it
Every role is filed under one sub-domain — the one its own title says it is. These reference kernel & drivers as secondary work.
Networking Software Engineer
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Performance Engineer
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Networking Deployment Engineer
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Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer
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Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure (HPC)
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