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Senior Hypervisor Engineer

Nebius· System Engineers
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Hybrid (London, United Kingdom)£0Full-timePosted 7mo ago

About the role

Senior engineer role focused on extending and optimizing the QEMU/KVM virtualization stack within Nebius’s hyperscaler platform, with emphasis on I/O optimization, resource distribution, security, and collaboration with open-source communities.

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

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of professional software engineering experience
  • Fluent in C programming language
  • 3+ years of experience with Linux
  • At least 3 years of engineering experience with QEMU/KVM
  • General understanding of x86-compatible systems (virtual memory, interrupts, privilege rings)
  • Experience writing general system code in user mode for Linux, including debugging, analysis, and optimization tools (the emulator is built on the user mode system process for Linux)

Skills

Required:C programmingLinuxQEMU/KVMx86 architecture

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation
  • Career growth and learning opportunities
  • Flexibility and ownership
  • Collaborative and innovative culture
  • Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects
  • International environment and talented teams
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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