Senior Linux Kernel Engineer
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Minimum qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 5 years of experience with software development in C.
- 3 years of experience testing, maintaining, or launching software products, and 1 year of experience with software design and architecture.
- 3 years of experience developing large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks, or experience with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture.
- Experience in experimental design, analysis, and performance tools.
- Experience in kernel development and architecting and developing distributed systems design.
Preferred qualifications:
- Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or related technical field.
- 1 year of experience in a technical leadership role.
- Experience developing accessible technologies.
- Experience with complex distributed system software, thorough understanding of computer architecture, and familiarity with x86 assembly or Linux internals.
- Experience in the following areas: performance debugging and optimization of complex workloads, design of performance tools, compiler design and code optimization, high-performance software development techniques, concurrent programming, or multi-core computer architectures.
- Excellent problem-solving and debugging skills.
About the job
Google's software engineers develop the next-generation technologies that change how billions of users connect, explore, and interact with information and one another. Our products need to handle information at massive scale, and extend well beyond web search. We're looking for engineers who bring fresh ideas from all areas, including information retrieval, distributed computing, large-scale system design, networking and data storage, security, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, UI design and mobile; the list goes on and is growing every day. As a software engineer, you will work on a specific project critical to Google’s needs with opportunities to switch teams and projects as you and our fast-paced business grow and evolve. We need our engineers to be versatile, display leadership qualities and be enthusiastic to take on new problems across the full-stack as we continue to push technology forward.
As a Senior Linux Kernel Engineer, you will be responsible for delivering exceptional Linux kernel performance monitoring infrastructure for Google data centers. You will work on processor and system performance monitoring hardware and associated collection tools, with hardware vendors to improve hardware capabilities, and tooling to deliver the most insightful performance data to our end users at scale.
Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.
The US base salary range for this full-time position is $161,000-$239,000 + bonus + equity + benefits. Our salary ranges are determined by role, level, and location. The range displayed on each job posting reflects the minimum and maximum target salaries for the position across all US locations. Within the range, individual pay is determined by work location and additional factors, including job-related skills, experience, and relevant education or training. Your recruiter can share more about the specific salary range for your preferred location during the hiring process.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the upstream Linux community.
- Work on the tool used to collect performance data fleetwide.
- Work across all server-class processor architectures.
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