Staff Engineer, KernelCare

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Portugal, +4 more states.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of significant product components and workstreams throughout their entire lifecycle, from initial discovery and planning to production release and ongoing enhancements.

• Collaborate closely with engineering, product, sales, and other stakeholders to gather, clarify, and understand both business and technical requirements.

• Convert vague and broad product objectives into detailed technical plans, milestones, and actionable engineering tasks.

• Design scalable system architecture and make pivotal technical decisions for high-impact areas of the product.

• Develop, review, and sustain production-grade components end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.

• Assume responsibility for the components delivered in production and their ongoing operation and evolution.

• Independently monitor progress and proactively communicate results, blockers, risks, dependencies, and evolving requirements.

• Investigate relevant technologies, tools, market strategies, and competitor solutions as needed.

• Enhance engineering quality through design reviews, technical mentorship, guidance, and best practices.

⛳️ Requirements

• Demonstrated experience managing major projects or workstreams from start to finish.

• Strong backend engineering expertise in Python.

• Proficient in reading and reviewing code written in C language.

• Solid hands-on experience with Linux.

• Excellent system design and architectural thinking, with a capability to implement solutions practically.

• Experience in gathering and refining requirements, transforming broad or unclear needs into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.

• Strong technical product ownership and a solid understanding of how engineering decisions align with broader product and business objectives.

• Ability to work autonomously without close daily supervision.

• Excellent communication skills and confidence in collaborating with engineering, product, sales, and other departments.

• Ability to clearly articulate technical decisions, progress, risks, and blockers.

• Regular utilization of AI-assisted development tools for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, or code review.

• Capability to balance immediate delivery with long-term scalability, maintainability, and extensibility.

• Nice to have: experience in writing Linux kernel patches or kernel modules.

• Nice to have: proficiency in C programming and debugging.

• Nice to have: in-depth understanding of operating systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Emphasis on professional development.

• Engaging and challenging projects.

• Fully remote work with flexible hours, allowing for work from any location globally.

• 24 days of paid vacation per year.

• 10 days of national holidays.

• Unlimited sick leave.

• Compensation for private medical insurance.

• Reimbursement for co-working expenses.

• Gym and sports reimbursement.

• Budget for educational purposes.

• Opportunity to earn a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.