Posted about 5 years ago

At Red Hat, we connect an innovative community of customers, partners, and contributors to deliver an open source stack of trusted, high-performing solutions. We offer cloud, Linux, middleware, storage, and virtualization technologies, together with award-winning global customer support, consulting, and implementation services. Red Hat is a rapidly growing company supporting more than 90% of Fortune 500 companies.

Guide the direction, design, and implementation of our technology. The Red Hat Engineering team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us in Ra'anana, israel. In this role, you will work with some of the brightest engineers in the open source community to create innovative software solutions. You'll work as part of the globally distributed Red Hat Virtualization team to develop and maintain Red Hat's virtio networking and DPDK as part of the QEMU-KVM hypervisor and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) networking.

• Improve Red Ha’s virtio networking drivers and utilities
• Develop new features and drivers for Red Hat’s virtio networking as part of the QEMU-KVM hypervisor, the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) guest drivers, and DPDK
• Debug and fix issues with regards to Red Hat’s virtio networking
• Develop new QEMU and KVM features
• Optimize and maintain KVM and open source machine emulator and virtualizer (QEMU) code

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
• 3+ years of experience with programming, especially in C
• Experience working with low-level drivers
• Ability to perform well on your own and meet deadlines
• Good communication skills

The following are considered a plus:

• Knowledge of virtualization
• Experience with QEMU or KVM
• Contribution to and engagement in open source projects
• Networking knowledge and experience
• Knowledge of virtio
• Knowledge of DPDK
• Knowledge of Intel 64 or AMD64 architectures or similar

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