Senior Engineer - Linux Kernel

About us 

Marathon Technologies is a growing, privately held company located in Littleton, Massachusetts. Marathon is highly innovative, holds numerous patents, and produces the industry’s most cost-effective and highly available virtual server solutions.

 

Role:

Senior team member working on kernel mode design and development for fault tolerant, high availability, and disaster recovery products, based on hypervisor virtualization technology.

 

Responsibilities:

* Contribute to Xen hypervisor based development and design of fault tolerant systems

* Enhance the Linux kernel and OS and Xen hypervisor to add advanced features

* Contribute to tracking, making recommendations, and integrating development with the Xen/Linux Open Source community
* Provide Linux and Open Source technical expertise and consulting across the engineering organization.

* Engage in complex problem debugging in a virtualized environment

 

Required Skills:

* Knowledge of Open Source development and best practices

* Experience interacting with the Open Source community is a plus
* Strong background in Linux Kernel and Operating System Architecture

* Strong background in Linux networking and TCP/IP stack
* Good design and coding skills in kernel implementation and debugging

* Familiarity with Linux run-time environment and libraries

* Ability and willingness to help organization ramp-up Linux/OSS knowledge
* Exposure to hypervisors (Xen, VMware, MS virtualization) a major plus

* Knowledge of python, bash, and/or perl a plus

* Knowledge in some of the following: storage systems, SMP, process management, virtual memory, I/O subsystem, security, performance analysis, file systems, resource management, boot sequence, driver load mechanisms, Linux configuration internals
* Fluency in C and familiarity with x86 assembly code is desirable

* Good written and verbal communications skills.

* Experience with code management and bug tracking tools
* BSCS degree or equivalent, and minimum 4 years directly related experience 

 

Marathon Technologies Corporation is an Equal Opportunity Employer. 

 

Visit us at www.marathontechnologies.com