Linux Kernel Developer

Nutanix · Bengaluru · 2–6 yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: Go, Linux

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About the role

Nutanix AHV builds on top of the open-source x86-KVM stack, with an emphasis on performance, scale, and reliability. The hyperconverged nature of our stack provides the phenomenal potential for optimisations, cutting across various parts of our stack—right from the kernel and ranging up to, but not limited by, the management layer.
An innovative hyperconverged stack needs out-of-the-box solutions. We are looking for original thinkers who won't hesitate to demanding conventional thought.

Responsibilities:
- We’ve always disrupted ourselves to provide the best in-class customer experience.
- A case in point: Nutanix is well known for providing a zero-touch upgrade experience for our customers. Within the hypervisor team, we are focussing on various ways to make this faster and more reliable -- by pushing the limits of VM live migrations towards speed and predictability, or rethinking why a hypervisor upgrade should need a reboot at all.
- You’ll be working with a team of extremely talented engineers across a spectrum of geographies and experiences. The most successful candidate for this role will be someone who:
- Constantly look for ways to improve the product, learning from customer questions and not limited to existing technologies.
- Devise solutions and back them up with solid research and numbers to prove their efficacy.
- Have the ability to convey ideas to a geographically diverse audience using excellent communication and writing skills.
- Participate in design discussions, often outside one’s known comfort zone—learning on the go.
- Proactively mentor junior members of the team, finding ways to fuel their curiosity and leverage their unique strengths.
- Not hesitate to help out with customer escalations: Nutanix believes in putting customers first. While we have a huge, dedicated team to assist customers with any issues, there might be situations where engineering help might be sought to bail out an unfortunate outage.
- Take pride in working with open-source communities to fold product improvements back into community projects.

Qualifications:
- The must-haves:
- Rock-solid OS/systems fundamentals drive design and implementation.
- Low-level coding, debugging experience with at least one hardware architecture, preferably x86.
- The ability to write and maintain enterprise-quality code.
- Deep reasoning and detailed skills, which provide top-down thinking to break down abstract concepts into actionable pieces.
- Proven feature delivery experience: should have 6+ years of hands-on experience of what it means to ship enterprise-quality code to customers.
- The good-to-haves:
- Knowledge of x86 virtualisation and the KVM stack.
- Code contributions to the Linux kernel and virtualisation stack are an added plus.
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 2 - 6 years of experience building enterprise-grade software, preferably some with guide experience.

Qualifications

- The must-haves: Rock-solid OS/systems fundamentals drive design and implementation.
- Low-level coding, debugging experience with at least one hardware architecture, preferably x86.
- The ability to write and maintain enterprise-quality code.
- Deep reasoning and detailed skills, which provide top-down thinking to break down abstract concepts into actionable pieces.
- Proven feature delivery experience: should have 6+ years of hands-on experience of what it means to ship enterprise-quality code to customers.
- The good-to-haves: Knowledge of x86 virtualisation and the KVM stack.
- Code contributions to the Linux kernel and virtualisation stack are an added plus.
- Bachelor's/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 6 years of experience building enterprise-grade software, preferably some with guide experience.

Responsibilities

- We’ve always disrupted ourselves to provide the best in-class customer experience.
- A case in point: Nutanix is well known for providing a zero-touch upgrade experience for our customers.
- Within the hypervisor team, we are focussing on various ways to make this faster and more reliable -- by pushing the limits of VM live migrations towards speed and predictability, or rethinking why a hypervisor upgrade should need a reboot at all.
- You’ll be working with a team of extremely talented engineers across a spectrum of geographies and experiences.
- The most successful candidate for this role will be someone who:
- Constantly look for ways to improve the product, learning from customer questions and not limited to existing technologies.
- Devise solutions and back them up with solid research and numbers to prove their efficacy.
- Have the ability to convey ideas to a geographically diverse audience using excellent communication and writing skills.
- Participate in design discussions, often outside one’s known comfort zone—learning on the go.
- Proactively mentor junior members of the team, finding ways to fuel their curiosity and leverage their unique strengths.
- Not hesitate to help out with customer escalations: Nutanix believes in putting customers first.
- While we have a huge, dedicated team to assist customers with any issues, there might be situations where engineering help might be sought to bail out an unfortunate outage.
- Take pride in working with open-source communities to fold product improvements back into community projects.

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