Integral to the Nutanix software stack is the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV). AHV is an enterprise-grade hypervisor tailor-made for Nutanix's software solution and has reliability, performance and scalability characteristics proven to be capable of meeting the demands of the toughest enterprise and private cloud workloads.

We are seeking to grow our Poland AHV Open Source engineering team with talented software engineers who will help us develop AHV, working closely with open source communities, and shape the future of the software-defined datacenter.

About The Team

The AHV team is led by industry experts with 20+ years of experience, who are leading AHV development globally. We have a forward-thinking approach to our work that has retained many of the best elements of start-up mentality whilst also recognising the need for mature delivery and execution. We work with open-source technologies including Linux KVM, QEMU, Open vSwitch and Libvirt and we’re building a team to help drive Nutanix’s involvement in those communities.

Your Role

Architect, design, develop, and maintain AHV features, interacting daily with Open Source communities like Linux, QEMU, SPDK, etc.
Timely review internal and external contributions to the open source communities’ codebase.
Contribute to maintaining products which use Linux KVM, QEMU, Libvirt, Open vSwitch and SPDK as well as upstream our patches to those projects.
Constantly push towards making AHV highly reliable, performant and secure.
Be passionate about datacenter management problems and strive to come up with innovative solutions.
Leading the development of features from concept to market, often interacting with cross-functional areas such as product management, sales, and support.
Mentoring other software engineers and all upstream contributors from the communities which are used by AHV.

What You Will Bring

Bachelor’s, Master’s, and/or PhD degree in Computer Science (preferred) or another technical discipline/equivalent experience.
1-10 years of industry experience or equivalent research experience.
Rock solid coding skills in C and Python, ideally for enterprise-quality software.
Coding skills in Rust and GoLang are desired, but not necessary.
Extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux.
Familiarity with OS internals and concepts of distributed systems.
Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualisation, and/or storage and network management.
Familiarity with KVM and QEMU is preferred.
Experience in interaction with open source communities is preferred

Work Arrangement

Remote: This position is primarily remote. There is no specific in-office requirement, however, there may be circumstances where you may be required to come into a local office for a specific purpose, and/or to travel to other locations based on business needs.