zCX Developer

Introduction

Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open Source? Did you just graduate and are eager to become part of an worldwide development community? Is your favorite OS Linux based and you enjoy low-level programming? If so, our team is the right place for you! We are expanding our IBM development team in Waterford. The team is responsible for enhancing the Linux kernel for IBM Z / IBM LinuxOne. This includes device drivers, new processor instructions, virtualization (KVM), confidential containers, and test automation/devops (CI/CD).

Your Role And Responsibilities

As a key member of our team, you will play a vital role in crafting exceptional software experiences. Your responsibilities will include the design and specifications for new features, implementation of the design, identifying and bug fixing, performance analysis, submitting your code to upstream open source community repositories, and solving client problems. This position requires working onsite 3 days per week.

Preferred Education

Bachelor's Degree

Required Technical And Professional Expertise

• Minimum of 3 years professional experience working in containerized environments, e.g. based on Kubernetes or OpenShift.
• This includes low-level software development, as well as a solid understanding of container orchestration, deployment topologies, as well as virtualization techniques.
• Experience in source code repository systems (e.g. git), scripting languages (e.g. Python) and test Automation (e.g. Jenkins)
• Extensive experience with one of the following Python or GOLang.
• Extensive experience in AI and Machine Learning (Knowledge of LLMS and opens source versions like llama)
  
  

Preferred Technical And Professional Experience

• Any previous contributions to Open Source projects Skills in current I/O technologies (e.g. PCI, NVMe, RDMA) would be ideal
• Experience in Z Architecture (S390X) and compilers would be a significant advantage