Senior Linux​/SDET Engineer

Senior Linux/SDET Engineer

Remote — United States | Full-Time | Direct Hire

MaxIT Consulting — Max Corporate Group is seeking an experienced Senior Linux/SDET Engineer for a leading global technology organization.

This opportunity is focused on defining test strategy, automation, and system-level validation for a highly distributed Linux-based AI and compute environment
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The ideal candidate brings deep expertise in Linux kernel internals, C development, virtualization, debugging, performance testing, and scalable test automation. This is a highly technical role for someone comfortable solving complex infrastructure problems at the operating-system level.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the overall testing and validation strategy for custom Linux kernel infrastructure supporting AI and compute environments.
• Design, build, and scale automated test frameworks focused on performance, reliability, and security.
• Develop comprehensive test suites for Linux kernel enhancements and infrastructure changes.
• Support the migration and validation of kernel and virtualization modifications across newer platform versions.
• Troubleshoot and isolate complex low-level system issues across test and simulated production environments.
• Perform Linux kernel debugging, performance benchmarking, and system-level validation.
• Architect and continuously improve build, automation, continuous integration, and continuous testing infrastructure.
• Partner closely with engineering teams to establish quality standards and improve infrastructure reliability at scale.
• Provide technical direction and mentorship to other engineers.
• Help identify and resolve performance, reliability, virtualization, networking, storage, and resource-management issues.

Required Qualifications

• 12+ years of relevant experience in software engineering, development, systems engineering, test engineering, or a closely related technical field.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience.
• Strong software development and validation experience using C, particularly in Linux kernel or low-level systems environments.
• Strong scripting and automation experience using Python, Shell, and/or Perl
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• Deep understanding of Linux kernel internals and system-level infrastructure.
• Strong hands-on experience with KVM and virtualization
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• Experience with Virtio drivers and virtualized I/O environments.
• Strong knowledge of cgroups, memory management, file systems, and block I/O.
• Knowledge of Ethernet/network drivers and the TCP/IP stack
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• Extensive experience with Linux kernel debugging and performance benchmarking.
• Experience designing, implementing, and maintaining continuous integration and automated testing frameworks.
• Proven ability to diagnose and resolve complex system-level and infrastructure issues.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills in highly technical environments.
• Ability to operate effectively in a distributed, remote engineering organization.

Technical Focus

Strong candidates should demonstrate meaningful hands-on experience across several of the following areas:

• Kernel-level development and validation
• C programming
• KVM and virtualization
• Virtio
• Memory management
• cgroups
• File systems
• Block I/O
• Network drivers
• TCP/IP
• Kernel debugging
• Performance benchmarking
• Python, Shell, or Perl automation
• Continuous integration
• Automated and continuous testing
• System-level performance and reliability validation

Ideal Background

Candidates may come from backgrounds such as:

• Kernel development
• Operating system engineering
• Systems validation
• Virtualization or hypervisor engineering
• Infrastructure test automation
• Low-level performance engineering
• Cloud infrastructure engineering
• Embedded or platform systems development
• Large-scale distributed systems validation

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