Software Engineer

The team is led by industry experts with 20+ years of experience, who are leading AHV development globally. We have a forward-thinking approach to our work that has retained many of the best elements of start-up mentality whilst also recognising the need for mature delivery and execution. We work with open-source technologies including Linux KVM, QEMU, Open vSwitch and Libvirt.

Your Role

• Design, develop, and maintain AHV features, often interacting with Open Source communities.
• Constantly push towards making AHV highly reliable, performant and secure.
• Be passionate about datacenter management problems and strive to come up with innovative solutions.
• Leading the development of features from concept to market, often interacting with cross-functional areas such as product management, sales, and support.
• Mentoring other software engineers.

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, and/or PhD degree in Computer Science (preferred) or another technical discipline/equivalent experience.
• 2+ years of industry experience or equivalent research experience.
• Rock solid coding skills in C and Python, ideally for enterprise-quality software.
• Coding skills in Rust and GoLang are desired, but not necessary.
• Extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux.
• Familiarity with OS internals and concepts of distributed systems.
• Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualisation, and/or storage and network management.
• Familiarity with KVM and QEMU is preferred.
• Experience in interaction with open source communities is preferred

We are seeking to grow our Cambridge-based engineering team with talented software engineers who will help us develop AHV and shape the future of the software-defined datacenter.