Linux Systems Engineer

9elements

11h • Remote

About The Position

Linux is at the heart of modern infrastructure - from the smallest embedded device to the largest data center fleet. At 9elements we help our customers build secure, trustworthy platforms based on open-source Linux stacks - from the firmware up. Whether it's hardening a Linux-based bootloader, integrating measured boot, or bringing a hypervisor to a new platform, we make sure open-source becomes the secure foundation that the industry can rely on.

Requirements

• (Embedded) Linux is your home turf - You're comfortable building, debugging and shipping Linux systems, from the kernel down to drivers and up through userspace, and you're not afraid to read source code (or write it).
• You care about security - You think about threat models, attack surfaces and trust boundaries, and you want to make systems that are secure by design instead of secure by hope.
• Being able to deep dive into technical issues - You love code and love debugging issues down to the core (which can be hardware - sometimes).
• You're fluent in English - English is our business language, internal and external and you should be able to communicate with it.
• You like working with Open-Source - sounds obvious but working with the open-source communities can be challenging sometimes. You have to be able to find the best possible solutions for our customers and the community.
• Be engaged - At 9elements we help each other. Our mission is big: We transform the firmware industry - it takes dedication and team effort to tear down this ecosystem and build it up from scratch again.

Nice To Haves

• Linux Kernel Development
• Hypervisor experience
• You've worked with KVM, Xen, or smaller research hypervisors and understand virtualization from the bare metal up?
• Hands-on experience with TPMs, secure boot, measured boot or remote attestation.
• Yocto, Buildroot or custom distro experience for embedded targets.
• Low-level languages are your friends - C is a given, Rust is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design, harden and ship Linux-based system software - from kernel and userspace components to secure boot chains, TPM integration and attestation - always aligned (and upstreamed back) with/into the community.

Benefits

• We think our employees are our biggest benefit that we have compared to the rest of the industry.
• We will try to make everything possible so that we can craft the job that you need to be happy.
• As part of this role you will be working with some top-notch industry experts in the open-source systems and firmware field.
• We know how important open-source work is and we reserve time within your work time to interact with the community, review patches and be part of working groups.
• Every employee at 9elements also gets the chance to: Regularly visit industry conferences like OCP EMEA/Global Summit/Linux Plumbers or others
• Be part of our own conference - the Open-Source Firmware Conference ( https://www.osfc.io )
• Choose your platform: Lenovo or Framework? We got you! You want to run Arch? Sure thing. Choose your platform where you can work best.
• Full Remote: We are headquartered in Germany and all the hardware is in our labs here. You can be around the world - we enable you to fully develop remotely.
• Your schedule: We need your work time to overlap a couple of hours with the German work time. Other than that - shape your work time as you need it to be as long as you get the job done.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed