Linux Kernel Engineer

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Linux Kernel Engineer based in Brazil.

This role offers the opportunity to engineer and optimize Linux kernels across a broad range of hardware, cloud, embedded, and high-performance computing environments.
You will work on both stable and cutting-edge kernel technologies, contributing to reliability, performance, security, and hardware enablement.
The position involves close collaboration with silicon manufacturers, cloud providers, hardware partners, and globally distributed engineering teams.
You will diagnose complex kernel issues, develop and review patches, improve testing and automation, and help ensure production readiness across multiple architectures.
Your work may span areas such as virtualization, confidential computing, networking, storage, containers, real-time systems, and low-level hardware enablement.
This is an excellent opportunity for a technically ambitious engineer who enjoys deep systems programming and contributing to open source software at scale.
You will work in a highly autonomous, international environment where strong engineering practices, curiosity, accountability, and continuous learning are highly valued.