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++ (25), Go (9), C (6), Assembly (5).
Hiring most into this area. OpenAI (9), Canonical (6), Tenstorrent (5), Cloudflare (4), Oxide Computer Company (3).
Distributed Systems Engineer - Data Platform - Logs and Audit Logs
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Senior Distributed Systems Engineer
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Senior Software Engineer, Workers Runtime
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Senior Engineer, Compute Services (Kubernetes, Bare Metal)
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Systems Engineer, Kernel
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Principal Systems Software Engineer
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Staff Software Engineer, Systems Engineering Focus
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Senior Software Engineer - Linux
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Staff Software Engineer - Security Agent
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Senior Infrastructure Engineer — Certification Authority
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Principal Software Engineer, Onboard Infrastructure
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Software Engineer, Compute Foundations Systems
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Software Engineer, Inference – AMD GPU Enablement
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Software Engineer, Platform Systems
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Networking Operating System Firmware Engineer
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Systems Software Engineer, Management Plane
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Host Systems Software Engineer
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Systems Software Engineer, Security, First Party Hardware
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Software Engineer, GPU Infrastructure- ChatGPT Engineering
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Hardware Platform Security Architect
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Member of Technical Staff (AI Inference Engineer)
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Member of Technical Staff (Backend/Infrastructure Engineer, Search)
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Software Engineer - Neki Orchestration
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Senior Software Engineer , AI and Search Team - C/C++ or Rust
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Software Engineer, Compute Platform
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69 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 - Performance Analysis & Tuning
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Member of Technical Staff, Training Performance Engineer
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Member of Technical Staff - ML Performance
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Software Engineer, Network Infrastructure
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