CIFS Kernel Engineer

CIFS Kernel Engineer

Job Description:

At SUSE, we are passionate about Open Source and we are major contributors to many upstream projects. In our daily work, we value creativity and innovation, while staying focused on delivering business results. Our engineering team is a global team from almost all continents. SUSE has a wide field of advanced technologies and offers developers with an open and curious mind a great opportunity to apply and grow their skills.

We are looking for a software engineer to develop and maintain the cifs.ko kernel file system module and related user space tools. You will be a part of an engineering team responsible for various Windows network interoperability software, including cifs.ko, samba, and sssd, as well as ldap.

Responsibilities:

• Develop enhancements for the cifs kernel file system module and related tools, working with our enterprise Linux team, community, and upstream.
• Provide engineering support for our enterprise customer support team as needed
• Provide input to QA and documentation teams
• Participate with the team in developing maintaining development, debugging, testing tools and CI infrastructure specific to the team
• Work across teams as required

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• At least 2 years of experience in kernel development

Knowledge and Skills:

• Linux kernel development, preferably in file systems
• crash and gdb debuggers
• network protocol, preferably SMB, development and debugging
• network protocol analysis using Wireshark or tcpdump
• Strong written and verbal communication skills; proficient in English. Ability to effectively communicate design proposals and negotiate options.

Job:

Engineering

SUSE, the world’s largest independent open source software company, powers digital transformation with true open source technologies for the enterprise that simplify, modernize and accelerate traditional, cloud and edge solutions. SUSE collaborates with partners, communities and customers to deliver and support solutions that enable mission-critical business outcomes. SUSE’s container and cloud platforms, software-defined infrastructure, and artificial intelligence and edge computing solutions allow customers to create, deploy and manage workloads anywhere – on premises, hybrid and multi-cloud. For more information, visit www.suse.com.