Member of Technical Staff, Linux Kernel

Deepen kernel-level diagnosis and remediation. This is the foundational, cross-substrate seat: the platform's fixes are only as good as its kernel reasoning.

Note: this seat opens later. We're listing it now so the right person can introduce themselves early.

A note on location

Remote, with at least four hours of overlap with Pacific or IST. We don't track hours. We ask for the overlap because a lot of this work is debugging together in real time, and that doesn't work across a twelve-hour gap. If you're in Seattle or Bengaluru, we'd like to meet in person now and then. It isn't a requirement.

The bar

• 10+ years of relevant engineering experience.
• Deep Linux kernel internals.
• Crash and ramdump forensics, live and post-mortem.
• Kernel tracing and profiling: ftrace, perf, eBPF.
• Driver and BSP experience.
• Strong C.
• Proficient in day-to-day work with CLI-based AI coding tools like Claude Code (or an equivalent). It's how the team operates, not a nice-to-have.

What you'll do

• Build ramdump and crash forensics: drgn, vmcoreinfo, ramdump parsing, post-mortem analysis under customer deadlines.
• Reason across scheduler, memory management, and driver internals.
• Ground remediations in kernel source.

Bonus

• Android kernel.
• ARM64 internals.
• Embedded / hardware bringup.
• drgn and crash tooling.
• Upstream contributions (patches accepted on LKML).
• Yocto distro bring-up.

What we offer you

• A front seat as we scale. Customer calls, the roadmap, the pipeline, how the company is actually doing.
• Top-of-market salary and founding equity. You'll own a piece of what you build.
• The AI tools you need. We use AI across writing code, reviewing it, research, ops, and internal tooling. If something would help you work better, we'll get it.
• Early ownership, and full visibility. We move fast, and you'll help decide where.
• Comprehensive medical insurance for you and your family.
• Start-up perks and flexible time off, the kind people actually take.
• A small team that's easy to work with. People here like solving hard problems and helping each other out.

What to expect after you apply

• Screening call with Head of People & Business Operations
• Technical conversation with Co-founder/CEO
• Technical exercise with Co-founder/ Head of Engineering
• Final conversation with Co-founder/CEO
• References, then offer

In your application, tell us what you'd own here, and the hardest thing you've shipped in this domain.