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Senior/Staff Virtualization Engineer

United StatesUnited States - San Franciscosenior
EngineeringSenior
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Requirements Summary

creation, configuration, validation, and teardown Requirements 5+ years experience with Linux virtualization: KVM/QEMU, libvirt, VFIO device passthrough, hug

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You build the custom compute environments we deliver to customers — bare metal or virtual machines with GPU passthrough, dedicated Kubernetes clusters, and the networking that ties them together. You work across the full stack from Linux image building to overlay network design to cluster bootstrapping.

Responsibilities

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  • Build and deliver custom environments with excellent GPU performance for customer workloads
  • Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate provisioning, alerting and recovery
  • Provision and configure dedicated Kubernetes clusters tailored to customer requirements
  • Design and implement overlay networking (VLAN, VXLAN) and routing configurations (ECMP, BGP) and tunnels (strongSwan, IPSEC) for tenant isolation and performance
  • Build and maintain Linux images
  • Set up network monitoring and diagnostics for customer environments
  • Automate the end-to-end lifecycle of customer compute environments: creation, configuration, validation, and teardown

Requirements

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  • 5+ years experience with Linux virtualization: KVM/QEMU, libvirt, VFIO device passthrough, hugepages, NUMA, CPU pinning
  • Strong networking fundamentals: VXLAN, VLAN, ECMP, BGP, ARP, and the ability to debug packet-level issues (tcpdump, Wireshark)
  • Production experience building and operating Kubernetes clusters on bare metal (MetalLB)
  • Proficiency with Linux image building and OS provisioning (kickstart, cloud-init, PXE/iPXE)
  • Proficiency in Python, Bash, Ansible and Terraform
  • Deep experience with NVIDIA GPUs: drivers, MIG, container runtimes (nvidia-container-toolkit), InfiniBand, RDMA/RoCEv2 and GPUDirect for high-performance AI networking
  • Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
  • Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement

Nice to Have

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  • Experience with SR-IOV, DPDK, or other high-performance networking technologies
  • Experience with shared network storage (Ceph, Lustre, Weka)
  • Experience with network automation tools (Netbox, Nautobot, Nornir)

What We Offer

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$180,000-250,000 plus equity + benefits
  • San Francisco, CA

What We Offer

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Interesting and challenging work
A lot of learning and growth opportunities
We are currently hiring in downtown San Francisco.
We offer visa sponsorship and will help you relocate to San Francisco.
Health, dental, and vision insurance (US)
Regular team events and offsites

Listing Details

Posted
February 23, 2026
First seen
March 26, 2026
Last seen
April 15, 2026

Posting Health

Days active
19
Repost count
0
Trust Level
45%
Scored at
April 15, 2026

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FalSenior/Staff Virtualization Engineer