We're looking for a Lead Software Engineer for our flagship XenServer hypervisor to maintain a technical relationship with our hardware-vendor partners, develop new virtualisation capabilities, and resolve discovered defects. As part of the Partnership Engineering team you will be responsible for liaising with tier 1 OEMs and hardware vendors to enable XenServer to work with current and future hardware in the Enterprise Networking and Server fields. Additionally, you will work as part of a small team focused on projects and features outside of our Partner needs, within our core technologies. We work with upstream Open Source communities and projects, such as the Xen Project. You'll join a skilled and friendly team of software developers who work to deliver a highly reliable, resilient, and performant experience for our customers.

If you’re looking for a job that involves being the bridge between engineers, the business, and partners, yet with the opportunity to continue to apply your technical expertise, this position is for you! You’ll enjoy helping to bring people together, “translating” between technical and non-technical staff, and using your broad industry experience, knowledge of our partners, and XenServer to provide solutions for our customers.

About XenServer

XenServer is a commercial virtualisation platform based on the open-source Xen Project hypervisor. XenServer powers everything from government organizations, financial institutes, multi-thousand seat virtual desktop deployments, super-fast network load balancers, all the way up to some of the largest public and private clouds in the world.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Aligning XenServer hardware and architectural roadmaps with the bleeding edge technologies that are under development at partner companies

• Working with XenServer engineers internally, and applying your own software engineering skills in order to extend and enhance XenServer

• Acting as a requirements analyst, communicating partners’ technical needs to the wider XenServer business including XenServer Product Management and Technical Leadership

• Responsible for the day-to-day management of technical relationships with assigned tier 1 hardware manufacturers

• Providing deep technical consultancy and solving technical issues for partners to enable them to build successful products around XenServer

• Coordinating internally to ensure that Partner Hardware Compatibility List submissions and driver enablement are delivered to our customers 

Required Experience & Skills

• Able to maintain and nurture a technical and product communication relation with hardware vendors

• Excellent communication skills. Able to comfortably explain our product development to partners

• Can understand partners' technology roadmap and explain to our product management team

• Good C coding skills

• Good Python coding skills

• Understanding of make-based build systems

• Good code-review skills, able to offer constructive feedback to peers

• Experience with operating-system management of devices such as network interface cards

• Experience of unit-testing and a commitment to software quality

• Understanding of working with a version-control system

• Able to present a professional image of our company when dealing with external partners

Preferred

• Presentation skills for explaining technical concepts

• Understand the concepts of x84_64 CPUs and/or PCIe-device virtualization

• Developer experience with type 1 hypervisors

• Exposure to Linux kernel development

• Experience with Git

Education

University BSc degree in relevant field or equivalent experience

About Us:

Citrix and TIBCO recently merged to create Cloud Software Group, now one of the world’s largest cloud solution providers, serving more than 100 million users around the globe. When you join Cloud Software Group, you are making a difference for real people, each of whom count on our suite of cloud-based products to get work done — from anywhere. Members of our team will tell you that we value diverse lived experiences, passion for technology, and the courage to take risks.  Everyone is empowered to learn, dream, and build the future of work. We are on the brink of another Cambrian leap -- a moment of immense evolution and growth. And we need your expertise and experience to do it. Now is the perfect time to move your skills to the cloud.

Cloud Software Group is firmly committed to Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) and to compliance with all federal, state and local laws that prohibit employment discrimination. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, creed, sex or gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, ethnicity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, religion, genetic carrier status, disability, pregnancy, childbirth or related medical conditions (including lactation status), marital status, military service, protected veteran status, political activity or affiliation, taking or requesting statutorily protected leave and other protected classifications.

If you need a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during any part of the application process,  please contact us at (800) 424-8749 or email us at [email protected] for assistance.