Senior Staff Linux Kernel Engineer

Crusoe
San Francisco, Sunnyvale
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeUSD 250,000 - 300,000Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales EngineeringExperience: 10+ yearsSkills: ["Technical leadership","Mentorship","Code review","Problem-solving","Urgency"]

Set the technical direction for the Linux kernel team by owning the roadmap and architecting critical development projects. Build and maintain upstream-first kernel code and device drivers, optimizing memory management, scheduling, and I/O for GPU-accelerated AI and HPC workloads. Lead deep root-cause analysis across OS and hardware layers, triage and backport kernel CVEs, and create automated vulnerability tooling. Mentoring and growing a systems team through code reviews and technical leadership.

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Senior Staff Linux Kernel Engineer

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Job Summary

Set the technical direction for the Linux kernel team by owning the roadmap and architecting critical development projects. Build and maintain upstream-first kernel code and device drivers, optimizing memory management, scheduling, and I/O for GPU-accelerated AI and HPC workloads. Lead deep root-cause analysis across OS and hardware layers, triage and backport kernel CVEs, and create automated vulnerability tooling. Mentoring and growing a systems team through code reviews and technical leadership.
Location: San Francisco, Sunnyvale
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Solutions Engineering & Sales Engineering
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Set technical direction for the Linux kernel team by owning the roadmap and architecting critical development projects.
  • •Design and implement virtualization technologies for GPU-accelerated AI and HPC workloads, optimizing for low latency and high scalability.
  • •Develop and maintain upstream-first kernel code and device drivers, optimizing memory management, scheduling, and I/O subsystems.
  • •Lead root-cause analysis across OS and hardware layers; triage and backport kernel CVEs and build automated vulnerability analysis tooling.
  • •Lead and grow a systems team through technical mentorship, comprehensive code reviews, and alignment with product and hardware teams.

Pay and Benefits

Salary: USD 250,000 - 300,000
Equity and Bonus:Equity
Perks:Health InsuranceDentalVision401kHsa AccountPaid ParentalPaid Leave

Key Requirements

  • •10+ years of systems software engineering experience with at least 3 years in a technical leadership role managing low-level systems or infrastructure teams.
  • •Expert-level knowledge of Linux kernel internals (memory management, scheduler, I/O) and virtualization technologies (KVM, Xen, or QEMU).
  • •Strong C programming skills with fluency in kernel development workflow, including patch submission and debugging security vulnerabilities.
  • •Proficiency in modern systems programming (Go, Rust, or Python) and familiarity with CI/CD and deployment automation tooling.
  • •Ability to balance high-level architectural design with hands-on kernel coding and lead production-ready infrastructure delivery.
Experience:10+ yearsSystems softwareLinux kernelVirtualizationAI infrastructureHPC
Skills:Technical leadershipMentorshipCode reviewProblem-solvingUrgency
Tech Stack:Linux kernelCGoRustPythonKVMXenQEMUCI/CDVirtualizationCI/CD and deployment automation toolingCUDAROCmInfiniBandRoCEHypervisorsDevice emulationUpstream-first

Company Brief

Crusoe
Builds vertically integrated, energy-first AI infrastructure and purpose-built AI data centers (Crusoe Cloud), leveraging clean/stranded energy to power large-scale GPU compute for AI training and inference.
Industry: Data Centers
Company Size: Enterprise (1,001+ employees)
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Decacorn (USD 10B+)
Funding: Series E+
Headquarters: Denver, United States
Founded: 2018
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