Senior Hypervisor Engineer

About the role

The Senior Hypervisor Engineer will contribute to the development of the hyperscaler platform by working on substantial extensions for the QEMU/KVM virtualization stack. This role focuses on hardware virtualization, device emulation, performance optimization, and security against untrusted code in close cooperation with the open-source community.

Responsibilities

• Optimize I/O for emulated disk and network devices
• Integrate the hypervisor with other platform services and storage facilities for user data
• Efficiently distribute resources between virtual machines
• Improve guest system support
• Advance the cutting-edge of open source virtualization
• Provide low-level security for the hypervisor and emulator
• Provide general support, fix bugs, and monitor the upstream
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

Required skills

• C
• Linux
• QEMU
• KVM
• x86 architecture
• Virtual memory
• Interrupts
• Privilege rings
• System programming

Nice to have

• Linux Kernel
• ARMv8
• PCI
• SCSI
• ACPI

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
• 3+ years of experience with Linux
• 3+ years of engineering experience with QEMU/KVM

Benefits

• Competitive compensation
• Career growth and learning opportunities
• Flexibility and ownership
• Collaborative and innovative culture
• Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
• International environment

About the Company

Nebius is a full-stack AI cloud platform supporting developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment. Listed on Nasdaq and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company operates with a global footprint and a team of over 1,500 employees.