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Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2018)

425 points whoishiring | 1 comments | 02 Jul 18 15:01 UTC | HN request time: 0.208s | source

Please state the job location and include the keywords REMOTE, INTERNS and/or VISA when the corresponding sort of candidate is welcome. When remote work is not an option, include ONSITE.

Please only post if you personally are part of the hiring company—no recruiting firms or job boards. Only one post per month, please. If it isn't a household name, explain what your company does.

Commenters: please don't reply to job posts to complain about something. It's off topic here.

Readers: please only email submitters if you personally are interested in the job—no recruiters or sales calls.

To search the thread, try kennytilton's WhoIsHiring browser at https://kennytilton.github.io/whoishiring/ or kristopolous' console script at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10313519.

1. jamieiles ◴[02 Jul 18 15:43 UTC] No.17442618[source]▶
Full-time, remote within US, UK, France

Ksplice is a key technology in Oracle's Linux offering and powers our engineered systems and public cloud, patching the Linux kernel, user-space and virtualization stack without any downtime. We're a distributed team of engineers forming part of the Linux and Virtualization group at Oracle with a passion for working on exciting technology, software craftmanship and all things Linux.

We're looking for a systems engineer to help scale as we continue to expand into the Linux stack, developing custom tooling and automation for patching thousands of kernels, hypervisors and packages to rapidly respond to security updates. This is a varied role that will see you building Python based tools to manage large numbers of virtual machines, writing C based patching and analysis tools and debugging hard problems in a variety of Linux distributions.

Required skills include:

  * Experience building complex systems in Python or other systems languages.
  * Strong understanding of low-level programming in C/C++ and associated tooling.
  * Experience of Linux virtualization solutions including KVM/libvirt+Xen.
Other useful skills include:

  * Experience developing the Linux kernel or other low-level applications.
  * Performance tuning and optimization.
  * Excellent problem solving and debugging skills.
  * Familiarity with configuration managment tools such as Puppet/Chef/Ansible.
  * Experience in developing cloud native solutions.
More information about Ksplice is available at http://ksplice.oracle.com/ and you can contact me by email at jamie.iles@oracle.com if you have any questions. Oracle is an equal opportunity employer.