- 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.
- 8+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software,preferably some with guide experience. .
We are looking for original thinkers who wont 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:
- Problems you ll solve:
- 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.
Your Role You ll be working with a team of extremely talented engineers across a spectrum of geographies and experience. The most successful candidate for this role will be someone who can:
- 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/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 intelligent curiosity and leverage their unique strengths.
- Not hesitate to help out with occasional 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 a rare, unfortunate outage.
- Take pride in working with open-source communities to fold product improvements back into community projects.
What You Will Bring
- 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.
- The valuable-to-haves:
- Knowledge of x86 virtualization and the KVM stack.
- Code contributions to the Linux kernel/virtualization stack is an added plus.
Desired qualification & experience:
- Bachelors/Master s degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 8+ years of experience building enterprise-grade software, preferably some with guide experience.