Linux Kernel OS Developer - Waterford Office

Introduction
Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open Source ? Did you just graduate and are eager to become part of an worldwide development community? Your favorites are Linux and low-level programming? If so, our team is the right place for you!

We are building up an IBM team in the entirely new development location Waterford. The team will be responsible for enhancing the Linux kernel for IBM Z / IBM LinuxOne. This will include device drivers, new processor instructions, virtualization (KVM), confidential cotainers, and test automation (CI/CD).

The new location in Waterford will give you a lot of exciting possibilities to shape your work culture together with your peers. We will tightly collaborate with the international development teams of IBM (like hardware and firmware development), the global maintainers of Open Source communities, and our Linux distribution partners (Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical). Our deliverables will will strengthen the role of Linux on IBM Z / LinuxONE as the basis of many of IBM's commercial solutions in Cloud, Analytics, Finance, and AI.

Your Role and Responsibilities

As a key member of our new team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences.

Your responsibilities will comprise of design and specifications for new enhancements, coding, problem determination and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream community repositories, and solving client problems.

PLEASE NOTE - This position is based in our Waterford location and requires working onsite 3 days per week.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Strong desire to work on low-level software development within the Linux operating system kernel (e.g. based on C/C++)
• Interested in joining open source development communities
• Understanding of operating systems internals (e.g. memory management & task scheduling, interrupts, device drivers)
• Experience in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Previous contributions to Open Source projects
• Skills in current I/O technologies (e.g. PCI, NVMe, RDMA)
• Skills in IBM Z architecture ("Principles of Operations"), Z assembler and I/O concepts