Systems Engineer, Hypervisor and Kernel
- Full-time
- Remote · San Francisco, CA, US / Remote (US)
- $80K - $250K · 0.50% - 4.00% equity
Posted
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- Role: Engineering / Backend
- Experience: Any (new grads ok)
- Visa: US citizen/visa only
- Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS), C, Rust, Linux, Software Architecture
What we are looking for
- Deep experience with hypervisors, virtual machine monitors, or emulators
- Real work inside the Linux kernel: schedulers, timers, interrupts, drivers, or memory management
- Comfort in C and Rust, and comfort reading code you did not write
- A habit of measuring before guessing, and of writing down what you learned
Nice to have
- Contributions to Linux Kernel, KVM, QEMU, Firecracker, or similar
- Experience with record and replay, deterministic execution, or simulation testing
- Time spent running production systems on bare metal
Source: Y Combinator job 109294. Listed on YC when retrieved 2026-11-02.