Responsibilities
- Set technical direction for Linux kernel architecture, platform enablement, reliability, performance, security, and maintainability across multiple releases.
- Translate product and hardware roadmaps into sequenced Linux kernel and Linux OS release plans with interfaces, dependencies, risks, validation gates, and ownership.
- Lead architecture and design reviews, resolve cross-subsystem and cross-business-unit tradeoffs, and establish standards that reduce long-term operational cost.
- Prototype designs, review complex code, diagnose high-severity failures, and contribute targeted implementation on critical paths.
- Coordinate delivery across silicon, firmware, security, storage, networking, validation, release, and production teams from concept through deployment.
- Define an upstream strategy, represent technical positions in relevant Linux communities, and reduce unnecessary divergence from maintained interfaces.
- Establish quality and operational-readiness expectations covering automated testing, observability, rollback, regression control, and measurable reliability objectives.
- Mentor engineers and improve design, debugging, and technical decision-making practices.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
- At least 5 years of hands-on Linux kernel or operating-system engineering experience with technical leadership and depth in multiple kernel subsystems or platform-enablement domains.
- Demonstrated success setting technical direction for a major systems-software program and delivering it through multiple teams or product generations.
- Expert-level C and strong systems-debugging skills across kernel, firmware, hardware, and user-space boundaries.
- Experience making architecture tradeoffs involving performance, reliability, security, compatibility, and maintenance cost.
- Evidence of mentoring engineers and influencing stakeholders without reporting-line authority.
- Preferred: credible upstream Linux participation through subsystem contributions, maintainership, review leadership, or sustained collaboration with maintainers.
- Preferred: experience enabling new server silicon or data-center platforms from pre-silicon planning through fleet deployment.
- Preferred: experience defining multi-year technical plans and improving validation coverage, release quality, incident response, or kernel-update velocity.
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