Golang Software Engineer

Summary

Join the Luxor team and contribute to the development of Luxor Cloud, a cutting-edge cloud infrastructure platform. As a key member of our engineering team, you will design and develop cloud-based solutions, focusing on virtualization, networking, and storage. You will play a crucial role in shaping the architecture of Luxor Cloud through original research and performance analysis. This position requires expertise in virtualization technologies and a strong understanding of cloud infrastructure components. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to integrate KVM with other cloud components and develop automation tools. The ideal candidate possesses extensive experience in KVM engineering and Go programming.

Requirements

• To understand REST APIs and general API design
• English language proficiency

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain a robust, efficient KVM manager in Go to support Luxor Cloud offerings
• Architect virtualization infrastructure for high availability, performance, and scalability
• Optimize KVM performance for various workloads and ensure efficient resource utilization
• Work closely with cloud architects, DevOps, and infrastructure teams to integrate KVM with other cloud components (networking, storage, orchestration)
• Develop APIs and automation tools for VM provisioning, lifecycle management, and monitoring
• Troubleshoot complex virtualization issues, analyze root causes, and implement solutions
• Contribute to infrastructure as code (IaC) practices to automate deployment and scaling of virtual environments

Preferred Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience
• 3+ years of KVM engineering experience
• Strong proficiency in Go (Golang) with experience building high-performance, scalable systems
• Deep understanding of virtualization concepts, hypervisors, and kernel modules
• Experience with libvirt, qemu-img, virtio drivers, and virtualization APIs
• Knowledge of Linux kernel internals, process management, and resource isolation (cgroups, namespaces)
• Familiarity with networking technologies related to virtualization (bridging, VLANs, SDN, OVS)
• Hands-on experience with storage systems used in virtualized environments (Ceph, iSCSI, NFS)
• Strong understanding of cloud infrastructure components such as compute, networking, and storage
• Experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes) is a plus
• Experience working with remote teams

Benefits

• Equal pay
• Employee resource groups
• Inclusive benefits