Staff Engineer - Linux kernel Developer

Nutanix · Bengaluru · 8+ yrs experience · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: 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 optimizations cutting across various parts of our stack -- right from the kernel, and ranging up to, but not limited by, the management layer.
We are looking for original thinkers who won't hesitate to demand conventional thought in arriving at out-of-the-box solutions.
We aim to work as closely aligned with the open-source community as possible. Our engineers are highly encouraged to participate in open-source community development. Any work you do will be preserved as open-source commit(s) for posterity!
A day in the life of an AHV Hypervisor Engineer:

Responsibilities:
- We’ve always believed in demanding the status quo and disrupting 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.

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 8+ years of hands-on experience of what it means to ship enterprise-quality code to customers.
- 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 8+ years of hands-on experience of what it means to ship enterprise-quality code to customers.
- The good-to-haves: Knowledge of x86 virtualization and the KVM stack. Code contributions to the Linux kernel/virtualization stack is an added plus.
- Knowledge of x86 virtualization and the KVM stack.
- Code contributions to the Linux kernel/virtualization stack is an added plus.
- Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8+ 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 8+ years of hands-on experience of what it means to ship enterprise-quality code to customers.
- Rock-solid OS/systems fundamentals drive design and implementation.
- The good-to-haves: Knowledge of x86 virtualization and the KVM stack.
- Code contributions to the Linux kernel/virtualization stack is an added plus.
- Knowledge of x86 virtualization and the KVM stack.
- Bachelors/Master’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software, preferably some with guide experience.

Responsibilities

- We’ve always believed in demanding the status quo and disrupting 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.

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