Senior Hypervisor Engineer

About Nebius:

Nebius is leading a new era in cloud infrastructure for the global AI economy. We are building a full-stack AI cloud platform that supports developers and enterprises from data and model training through to production deployment, without the cost and complexity of building large in-house AI/ML infrastructure.

Built by engineers, for engineers. From large-scale GPU orchestration to inference optimization, we own the hard problems across compute, storage, networking and applied AI.

Listed on Nasdaq (NBIS) and headquartered in Amsterdam, we have a global footprint with R&D hubs across Europe, the UK, North America and Israel. Our team of 1,500+ includes hundreds of engineers with deep expertise across hardware, software and AI R&D.

The role

We’re looking for a Senior Hypervisor Engineer to contribute to the development of our hyperscaler platform. The Hypervisor team supports and develops the parts of the Cloud platform that directly affect the KVM hypervisor and QEMU device emulator. We understand the granular details of hardware virtualization and device emulation, paying close attention to performance and protection against untrusted code. You will work on substantial extensions for the QEMU/KVM virtualization stack in close cooperation with the opensource community.

In this position, your responsibility will be to:

Optimize I/O for emulated disk and network devices

Integrate the hypervisor with other platform services and storage facilities for user data

Efficiently distribute resources between virtual machines

Improve guest system support

Advance the cutting-edge of open source virtualization

Provide low-level security for the hypervisor and emulator

Provide general support, fix bugs, and monitor the upstream

Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders

We expect you to have:

5+ years of professional software engineering experience

Fluent in C programming language

3+years of experience with Linux

At least 3 years of engineering experience with QEMU/KVM

General understanding of x86-compatible systems (virtual memory, interrupts, privilege rings)

Experience writing general system code in user mode for Linux, including debugging, analysis, and optimization tools (the emulator is built on the user mode system process for Linux)

It would be an added bonus if you had:

Aсcepted patches in Linux Kernel or QEMU/KVM

Experience working with Linux kernel

Some experience with ARMv8, including virtualization extensions

Understanding of PCI, SCSI, and ACPI

Experience working with the Linux kernel

Excellent communication skills for cross-team collaboration

Strong work ethic

We conduct coding interviews as part of the process.

Benefits & Perks:

Competitive compensation

Career growth and learning opportunities

Flexibility and ownership

Collaborative and innovative culture

Opportunity to work on impactful AI projects

International environment and talented teams

What's it like to work at Nebius:

Fast moving - Bold thinking - Constant growth - Meaningful impact - Trust and real ownership - Opportunity to shape the future of AI

Equal Opportunity Statement:

Applicants must be authorized to work in the country in which they apply and will be required to provide proof of employment eligibility as a condition of hire.

If you need accommodations during the application process, please let us know.