Senior Software Engineer - Linux Kernel Filesystems

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The Role

About the Job:

Red Hat’s File System Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to assist with maintenance and development of local and virtual filesystems. You will be working with world-class Linux kernel filesystem developers developing, debugging, and supporting on-disk filesystems such as XFS, ext4, and exfat, as well as the supporting kernel VFS infrastructure and pseudo filesystems such as overlayfs. You will be engaged with Red Hat Enterprise Linux support teams and customers, as well as upstream development communities and users.
    
What you will do:

  • Develop, debug, and support Linux kernel filesystem code.

  • Develop, debug, and support filesystem user space applications.

  • Review code written by others.

  • Use and improve filesystem testing infrastructure.

  • Triage and resolve filesystem bugs reported by customers and QE.

  • Coordinate with team leads, architects, and other engineers to design solutions.

  • Quickly respond to security threats

     
What you will bring:

  • Advanced knowledge of the C programming language -

  • Advanced knowledge of the Linux operating system and Linux distributions - Experience with git

  • Ability to debug complex problems - Solid written and verbal English communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

  • Kernel development experience

  • Storage and/or filesystem development or administration experience

  • Experience with tools like Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and Bugzilla is a big plus

  • Experience interacting with open source communities

  • Experience with rpm-based Linux distributions

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