5+ years of professional experience in Compute SRE, Linux system engineering, or compute infrastructure roles
Strong proficiency in Linux kernel internals, with exposure to scheduler, memory allocation, and driver subsystems
Experience with virtualization architectures and technologies such as KVM, Xen, QEMU, or VMware
Familiarity with SmartNICs/DPUs (e.g., NVIDIA CX6/7, BlueField-3) and kernel bypass techniques
Expert-level skills in at least one programming language: Go, C or Rust
Experience with system-level debugging, including kdump, kexec, and kernel panic analysis
Proficiency in Infrastructure as Code tooling and CI/CD practices for bare-metal or cloud infrastructure
Strong understanding of compute scheduling, resource management, and high-throughput networking
Experience porting or maintaining custom Linux distributions or kernels for specific platforms
Exposure to AI model infrastructure and workload orchestration across GPU clusters
Contributions to Linux kernel, KVM, or other low-level infrastructure projects