Staff Engineer, KernelCare (worldwide remote, work anywhere)

Responsibilities

• Own major product components and workstreams throughout their full lifecycle, from initial discovery and planning to production release and ongoing improvement.
• Work directly with engineering, product, sales, and other stakeholders to understand, gather, and clarify business and technical requirements.
• Translate broad and sometimes unclear product goals into technical plans, milestones, and actionable engineering tasks.
• Design scalable system architecture and make technical decisions for high-impact product areas.
• Build, review, and maintain production-grade components end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
• Take responsibility for delivered components in production and their continued operation and evolution.
• Independently track progress and proactively communicate results, blockers, risks, dependencies, and changing requirements.
• Research relevant technologies, tools, market approaches, and competitor solutions when needed.
• Contribute to engineering quality through design reviews, technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices.

Requirements

• Proven experience owning major projects or workstreams end-to-end.
• Strong backend engineering experience in Python.
• Comfortable reading and reviewing C language code.
• Strong hands-on Linux background.
• Strong system design and architectural thinking, combined with the ability to implement proposed solutions hands-on.
• Experience gathering and refining requirements and turning broad or unclear needs into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.
• Strong technical product ownership and an understanding of how engineering decisions support broader product and business goals.
• Ability to work independently without close day-to-day supervision.
• Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with engineering teams, product stakeholders, sales, and other departments.
• Ability to clearly communicate technical decisions, progress, risks, and blockers.
• Regular use of AI-assisted development tools for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, or code review. AI should be part of the development workflow rather than used only for occasional experimentation.
• Ability to balance short-term delivery with long-term scalability, maintainability, and extensibility.

Nice to have

• Experience with writing patches for the Linux kernel or writing your own kernel modules
• Proficiency in C programming and debugging skills
• Deep understanding of how operating systems work

Benefits

• A focus on professional development.
• Interesting and challenging projects.
• Fully remote work with flexible working hours, that allows you to schedule your day and work from any location worldwide.
• Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
• Compensation for private medical insurance.
• Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
• Budget for education.
• The opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.

What you'll do

See responsibilities above for the scope of work and ownership across product components and production lifecycle.

Who you are

See requirements and nice-to-have sections for the desired background and skills, including hands-on engineering, technical ownership, independent work capability, and strong communication.

Tech stack

Python, C, Linux, and related system design and automation tooling; familiarity with AI-assisted development tools.

Team description

Hands-on Staff Engineer role within KernelCare, focusing on building reliable pipelines and process automation in the Security field, with 70% hands-on software engineering and 30% technical product ownership.