Systems Engineering UNIX/NT Director jobs in West Orange, NJ

In this role, you will manage the team responsible for designing, developing, and optimizing CoreWeave’s bare-metal systems. The team’s primary responsibilities include maintaining a custom Linux kernel, various OS images (Ubuntu-based), the virtualization stack (kubevirt/qemu/vfio), and the container/pod runtime stack (containerd/nydus/kubelet). You will be responsible for establishing and maintaining the team’s roadmap, creating a hiring plan to grow the team and collaborating closely with cross-functional teams.

Our Team’s Stack:

• Linux Kernel (custom build, currently tracking Ubuntu HWE)
• Intel/AMD CPUs, Nvidia GPUs, DPUs, Infiniband and Ethernet NICs
• KubeVirt, QEMU, SR-IOV, vfio-pci
• Ubuntu 22.04
• Containerd, Kubelet

Your Responsibilities:

• Build and lead distributed teams who are focused on rapidly delivering high quality results
• Identify opportunities to improve process flows and speed through systems and tools
• Develop measurable goals for teams, and ensure alignment across teams to deliver
• Facilitate constructive communication across all teams, and provide coaching and counseling to team leads by mentoring, one-on-one meetings, and regular performance feedback
• Work closely with recruiting team to attract and evaluate talent

Team Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain tooling to build custom Linux kernels and stateless OS images
• Automate packaging of critical components (drivers, microcode, components with out-of-tree patches, etc)
• Serve as a senior point of contact for hardware issue escalation and troubleshooting
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define Linux and OS requirements, specifications, and system architecture
• Analyze and optimize the performance of bare-metal and virtualized systems, identify bottlenecks, and propose improvements for enhanced efficiency

Requirements:

• A passion for leading emerging teams in a fast-paced environment
• Experience coaching and managing other leaders, and senior level staff that work on challenging issues and solutions that are scalable and executed rapidly
• Prior success in creating processes and developing cross-disciplinary collaboration between engineering, operations, support, sales and product groups
• Enthusiasm for staffing, interviewing, growing and retaining talent
• Passionate about operational excellence
• Excellent communication and organization skills to drive cross-disciplinary collaboration 
• Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
• Exceptional attention to detail and follow-up
• Start-up with growth experience preferred

Nice-to-haves:

• Prior experience managing distributed teams of Linux kernel developers / maintainers
• Prior experience working upstream with large open source projects (Linux kernel, kubernetes, etc)