Sr Engineer - Compute Virtualization

About us:

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We are looking for a Senior Engineer to design, build, and operate highly available compute and private cloud infrastructure at scale. This role requires strong software engineering fundamentals combined with hands-on expertise in Go, Linux, virtualization, networking, storage, and production operations. Understanding of Kubernetes and docker/containers is a plus.

Education Qualification:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field; Masters degree is a plus.
Experience: 5+ years of relevant experience in software development and cloud concepts/infrastructure

What You ll Bring
5+ years of relevant software/platform engineering experience with a 4 years bachelor s degree.
Core Technical Skills
- Programming: Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) and solid understanding of data structures, algorithms,
concurrency, and software design.
- Linux & Virtualization: Hands-on experience with Linux/Ubuntu, KVM, libvirt, or comparable server virtualization technologies.
- Containers: Strong working knowledge of Kubernetes and container technologies such as containerd/Docker.
- Distributed Services: Experience building microservices and REST/gRPC APIs.
- Infrastructure: Strong fundamentals in compute, networking, storage, load balancing, high availability, security, and failure recovery.
- Automation: Experience with Ansible or comparable infrastructure automation / configuration-management tools.
- Observability: Hands-on experience with Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, or equivalent observability platforms.
- Testing: Experience building unit, integration, and automated infrastructure/service tests.
- Engineering Practices: Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD, code reviews, automated testing, and production software-development practices.
- Production Operations: Proven experience deploying, operating, monitoring, and troubleshooting
- Deep knowledge of virtualization, container runtimes, distributed systems, or infrastructure platform engineering.
- Understanding of docker/container

What You ll Do
- Design and build scalable, resilient compute infrastructure and platform services.
- Develop production-quality services and infrastructure components using Go (Golang).
- Build and operate virtualization platforms using KVM, libvirt, and Linux.
- Develop REST/gRPC APIs and microservices for infrastructure automation and platform capabilities.
- Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, testing, and operational workflows using tools such as Ansible.
- Build observability into platforms using Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Telegraf.
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across compute, Linux, networking, storage, and virtualization.
- Improve platform availability, performance, scalability, operational readiness, and failure recovery.
- Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident response, root-cause analysis, and production support.
- Provide technical guidance to engineers and collaborate with partner teams on architecture and platform
decisions