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Linux Kernel Developer

1/14/2026

The Linux Kernel Developer will be part of a new team focused on Kernel development, collaborating with the upstream community. The role involves innovating within the Linux operating systems to achieve high performance in file systems.

Working Hours

40 hours/week

Company Size

1,001-5,000 employees

Language

English

Visa Sponsorship

No

About The Company
The Operating System for the Thinking Machine. VAST delivers the first AI Operating System, natively unifying and orchestrating storage, database, and compute to unleash the true power of agentic computing and data-intensive applications.​
About the Role

VAST Data is looking for a Linux Kernel Developer to join our growing team!

This is a great opportunity to be part of one of the fastest-growing infrastructure companies in history, an organization that is in the center of the hurricane being created by the revolution in artificial intelligence.

"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market."- Forbes

VAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era. We are building the enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets and make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. Designed from the ground up to make AI simple to deploy and manage, VAST takes the cost and complexity out of deploying enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.

Our success has been built through intense innovation, a customer-first mentality and a team of fearless VASTronauts who leverage their skills & experiences to make real market impact. This is an opportunity to be a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company’s growth and at a pivotal point in computing history.


Requirements

VAST is building the highest-performing file system in the world. This requires innovating all the way into the Linux operating systems that require accessing data at unlimited bandwidth and low latency.

We are forming a new team focused solely on Kernel development, collaborating with the upstream community, and setting new industry standards for fast file systems.

Requirements

Linux Kernel Development Experience

System programming in C/C++.

Solid networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP)

Python/Git- advantage

Knowledge block-level Storage/file systems — advantage

BSc/MSc degree in Computer Science, Engineering or equivalent

Key Skills
Linux Kernel DevelopmentSystem ProgrammingC/C++NetworkingTCP/IPPythonGitBlock-Level StorageFile Systems
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TechnologyEngineeringSoftware
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