The Luxor team is building Luxor Cloud, an innovative cloud infrastructure platform designed to deliver various services to customers. Our goal is to create a robust, customer-centric cloud environment, similar to DigitalOcean/Linode but tailored for specialized workloads. Luxor Cloud will empower businesses with high-performance virtual infrastructure, seamless automation, and flexible resource management, all backed by our custom-built virtualization stack.
In this role, you will develop the technical design for cloud-based solutions, focusing on virtualization, networking, and storage components. You’ll influence architecture decisions across Luxor Cloud by contributing original research, conducting advanced performance analysis, and applying deep expertise in cloud infrastructure. You will design solutions for business-critical, highly complex engineering projects, ensuring they meet stringent performance, security, and scalability requirements.
Requirements:
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.
To understand REST APIs and general API design.
English language proficiency.
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.
At Luxor we believe that meaningful contributions can be made by anyone. Each of us has a responsibility to drive Equality in our communities and workplaces. We are committed to creating a workforce that reflects society through inclusive programs and initiatives such as equal pay, employee resource groups, inclusive benefits, and more. Luxor is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employers. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status.
Luxor welcomes all.
Luxor does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Luxor will not pay any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Luxor.
Candidates must be based in: United States, Canada, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, China, India, Philippines.
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