Unikraft is on a mission to revolutionize cloud infra forever.
Systems Engineer
Location
Germany
Posted
70 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Systems Engineer
Unikraft
• Architect, build, and maintain the core infrastructure powering Unikraft Cloud—both hosted and on-prem. • Design and implement the platform’s main components at scale (think: 100,000+ instances per server) with native support for scale-to-zero, autoscaling, and strong isolation. • Optimize for performance, security, and reliability across diverse workloads—from serverless functions and AI agents to remote IDEs and telemetry backends. • Provide input to and help design the platform’s technical roadmap.
Job Requirements
- Strong proficiency and programming skills in C, with a deep understanding of systems-level programming.
- Experience building and maintaining operating systems, embedded systems and/or device drivers.
- Familiarity with memory management, concurrency, and performance optimization.
- Knowledge of virtualization technologies like QEMU/KVM.
- Micro-VMMs like Cloud Hypervisor or Firecracker are a plus.
- Solid grasp of Linux (and Linux networking) internals and comfort working close to the kernel a plus.
- Excellent debugging skills.
- Experience with gcc, clang, and other C toolchains, build systems, and cross-compilation workflows.
- Experience with Rust a plus.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills — you’re comfortable working across functions and explaining technical details clearly.
Benefits
- Remote-first from day one — work wherever you’re most productive.
- Competitive salary and opportunities for career development.
- Six weeks of total time off for you to use through the year.
- A generous equipment budget to spend on anything you need to do your best work.
- Fun-focused, in-person team retreats to recharge and build great relationships.
Related Guides
Related Categories
Related Job Pages
More Systems Engineer Jobs
Microsoft Server System Engineer
DPWAY S.r.l.Siamo un'azienda specializzata in soluzioni di cybersecurity e consulting in ambito IT.
• Installazione e configurazione di sistemi Microsoft e applicativi • Gestione e patch di prodotti • Consulenza sistemistica di secondo e terzo livello • Formazione del personale Junior • Lavorare autonomamente rispettando le priorità assegnate
Systems Analyst
State of MaineThe State of Maine represents Maine's network of government agencies and departments serving its residents from the state's capital of Augusta. As an employer,
If you are a current State of Maine employee, please submit your application through the internal application process using the Find Jobs report in PRISM. Seasonal employees who do not have PRISM access should apply through the State’s career page and indicate on the application that they have previously worked for the State. . Office of Information Technology Opening Date: March 24, 2026 Closing Date: April 07, 2026 Grade/Admin Unit: 27 Professional/Technical Job Class Code: 0867 Salary: $66,952.08 - $94,077.37*/Annually (*includes 15% recruitment and retention stipend, and eligible for a 5% training bonus) Position Number: 200024857 Location: Augusta Telework: Available This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or STEM OPT extensions. OVERVIEW: The Department of Administrative and Financial Services (DAFS) Office of Information Technology (MaineIT) provides information technology support to over 13,000 employees. MaineIT oversees large scale enterprise applications that support the critical and diverse business needs of the State of Maine and its agencies. MaineIT is seeking a highly talented individual who will represent our C.A.R.E. values in all that they do. At MaineIT we: - Practice Customer-focus, ensuring that our customers are heard, and their needs are met. - Hold ourselves to a high level of Accountability by being transparent with our stakeholders. - Maintain an effective level of Responsiveness by providing timely updates in a proactive manner. - Strive to provide Empathy driven, people-focused services by applying emotional intelligence skills and behaviors. ABOUT THE JOB DETAILS: This exciting and engaging work provides advanced technical services involving the analysis, design, development, and implementation of complex application systems. Responsibilities include researching and analyzing business needs, formulating, and defining application scope and objectives, and connect IT Policies and with both internal and external systems capable of fully meeting business needs and objectives. WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU? You will have an opportunity to work with a dedicated and diverse OIT Applications and Infrastructure team including leaders, programmers, testers, business product owners and architects to identify and propose IT policy to align to procurements of technology solutions to complex business problems through the product life cycle. You will also have an opportunity to mentor other team members in systems analysis, critical thinking and problem-solving. WHAT WILL YOU DO? You will perform IT Policy analysis and gather documentation of business and technical system interactions. You will confirm details of system designs and technical solutions to related business needs and work with the Application Development team to implement those solutions through IT Procurements. You will be involved in various phases of the vendor management, including Requirements Definition and Documentation for Request for Proposals, Contracts, Statements of Work, Systems Analysis and Design, System Integration, User Acceptance Testing, and IT Policy Reviews and Deployment. You will also be required to facilitate processes for the team and vendors to ensure they are meeting OIT policy and procedures. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES: - Knowledge of all phases of the IT Policies, IT Procurement, software development life cycle as well as the project development cycle - Possess strong oral and written communication skills including the ability to write clearly and effectively - Demonstrated experience in gathering business requirements for system design including advanced methodologies like story mapping, impact mapping, user story writing and refinement - Experience in agile development methodology and practices - Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships in a high-paced team environment - Experience in writing and executing test plans with attention to detail and quality focus - Ability to manage your time proficiency, displaying good time management skills - Ability to self-organize and assist the teams you work with in self-organization MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS: A four (4) year degree in combination of higher-level programming and or systems analysis and design experience OR a Master’s Degree from an accredited educational institution may be substituted for two (2) years of programming experience. Preference will be given to candidates who demonstrate the following: - A solid working IT Policy or Procurement experience with current technologies. - A solid working experience with vendor management. CONTACT INFORMATION: For more information or questions specific to the position, please contact recruiting.ggsc@maine.gov The selected candidate will be required to pass the required background checks (fingerprinting may be required) as a condition of employment. Benefits of working for the State of Maine: No matter where you work across Maine state government, you find employees who embody our state motto—"Dirigo" or "I lead"—as they provide essential services to Mainers every day. We believe in supporting our workforce's health and wellbeing with a valuable total compensation package, including: - Work-Life Balance – Rest is essential. Take time for yourself using 13 paid holidays, 12 days of sick leave, and 3+ weeks of vacation leave annually. Vacation leave accrual increases with years of service, and overtime-exempt employees receive personal leave. - Health Insurance Coverage – The State of Maine pays 85%-100% of employee-only premiums ($11,857.68-$13,950.24 annual value), depending on salary. Use this chart to find the premium costs for you and your family, including the percentage of dependent coverage paid by the State. - Health Insurance Premium Credit – Participation decreases employee-only premiums by 5%. Visit the Office of Employee Health and Wellness for more information about program requirements. - Dental Insurance – The State of Maine pays 100% of employee-only dental premiums ($365.28 annual value). - Retirement Plan – The State of Maine contributes 14.11% of pay to the Maine Public Employees Retirement System (MainePERS), on behalf of the employee. - Gym Membership Reimbursement – Improve overall health with regular exercise and receive up to $40 per month to offset this expense. - Health and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts – Set aside money pre-tax to help pay for out-of-pocket health care expenses and/or daycare expenses. - Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness – The State of Maine is a qualified employer for this federal program. For more information, visit the Federal Student Aid office. - Living Resources Program – Navigate challenging work and life situations with our employee assistance program. - Parental leave is one of the most important benefits for any working parent. All employees who are welcoming a child—including fathers and adoptive parents—receive forty-two (42) consecutive calendar days of fully paid parental leave. Additional, unpaid leave may also be available, under the Family and Medical Leave Act. - Voluntary Deferred Compensation – Save additional pre-tax funds for retirement in a MaineSaves 457(b) account through payroll deductions. State employees are eligible for an extensive and highly competitive benefits package, covering many aspects of wellness. Learn about additional wellness benefits for State employees from the Office of Employee Health and Wellness. Note: Benefits may vary somewhat according to specific collective bargaining agreements and are prorated for anything less than full-time. There's a job and then there's purposeful, transformative work. Our aim is to create a workplace where you can learn, grow, and continuously refine your skills. Applicants demonstrate job requirements in differing ways, and we appreciate that many skills and backgrounds can make people successful in this role. As an Equal Opportunity employer, Maine State Government embraces a culture of respect and awareness. We are committed to creating a strong sense of belonging for all team members, and our process ensures an inclusive environment to applicants of all backgrounds including diverse race, color, sex, sexual orientation or gender identity, physical or mental disability, religion, age, ancestry, national origin, familial status or genetics. If you’re looking for a great next step, and want to feel good about what you do, we’d love to hear from you. Please note reasonable accommodations are provided to qualified individuals with disabilities upon request. Thinking about applying? Research shows that people from historically excluded communities tend to apply to jobs only when they check every box in the posting. If you’re currently reading this and hesitating to apply for that reason, we encourage you to go for it! Let us know how your experience and passion set you apart. If you require a paper application, please download and print one HERE . If you are unable to complete the online application, please contact the Human Resources representative listed on the job opening you are interested in applying for. They will work with you for an alternative method of submitting.
Role Description We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to design, build and support advanced surveillance and video analytics solutions across client environments. This is a hands-on, client-facing role combining system design, integrations and performance optimisation. - Contribute to and lead the design of surveillance and analytics system architectures - Deploy and configure CCTV / VMS and video analytics platforms - Integrate systems with third-party platforms (APIs, access control, identity systems) - Optimise analytics performance (reduce false alerts, improve detection accuracy) - Troubleshoot and support live environments - Work directly with clients to translate requirements into technical solutions Qualifications - Strong experience with CCTV / surveillance / VMS platforms - Proven system integration experience (APIs, third-party systems) - Experience with cloud or hybrid environments - Ability to design and implement scalable solutions - Comfortable in a client-facing role - Video analytics / AI exposure - Experience with large-scale or real-time data systems Company Description
Senior Systems Support Engineer
Referrals OnlyThoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.
Role Description As a senior Systems Support Engineer you will play a critical role in ensuring the operational efficiency, stability and availability of complex application systems. You will contribute significantly to operational success, refine your expertise in incident management and DevOps and leave a lasting impact on the delivery of inventive solutions to our clients. - You will use your skills in incident management processes and tools, application monitoring metrics and tooling to generate reports and take corrective actions. - You will understand complex application systems and find your way through them to debug a business impacting issue. - You will follow standards and best practices to bring operational efficiencies, stability and availability of the system. - You will use continuous delivery practices to evolve, support and deliver high-quality software, as well as value to end customers, as early as possible while working in a collaborative, value-driven teams to build innovative customer experiences for our clients. - You will leverage your knowledge regarding the different logging techniques (various levels) and use them for alerting, monitoring and identifying the root cause of incidents. - You will efficiently use DevOps tools and practices to deploy and run software. - You will act as a mentor for less experienced peers through both your technical knowledge and leadership skills. - You will apply the latest technology thinking from our Technology Radar to solve client problems. Qualifications - You have experience working on programming languages such as Java. - You have an understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS. - You have experience with scripting languages such as Python or Powershell. - You have a high-level understanding of various architectures such as monolithic, N-tier, layered, microservices and serverless. - You must possess strong debugging and triaging skills to troubleshoot code effectively. - You have experience working with relational databases such as MS SQL, MySQL or PostgreSQL. - You have experience working with containerization tools such as Docker and CI/CD tools such as Jenkins and Azure pipelines. - You have experience working with relational or non-relational databases. - You have an understanding of application monitoring tools such as DataDog, Prometheus or Grafana, the different metrics that go with it and are able to generate reports and take corrective actions. - You have the ability to ensure that the deliverables, namely bug fixes and enhancements to the existing codebase, are high-quality and well-tested. - You are comfortable with Agile methods, such as Scrum and/or Kanban. Requirements - You enjoy influencing others and always advocate for technical excellence while being open to change, when needed. - You have good communication and articulation skills. - You have a presence in the external tech community and willingly share your expertise with others via speaking engagements, contributions to open source, blogs and more. - You are resilient in ambiguous situations and can approach challenges from multiple perspectives. - You advocate for and implement cloud best practices in the areas of resource optimization, monitoring and alerting. - You advocate for security best practices and implementation of the same. - You can guide and mentor junior-level consultants. - You are willing to be part of a rotation- and need-based 24x7 available team. Benefits - There is no one-size-fits-all career path at Thoughtworks: however you want to develop your career is entirely up to you. - Your career is supported by interactive tools, numerous development programs and teammates who want to help you grow. - We see value in helping each other be our best and that extends to empowering our employees in their career journeys. Company Description Thoughtworks is a dynamic and inclusive community of bright and supportive colleagues who are revolutionizing tech. As a leading technology consultancy, we’re pushing boundaries through our purposeful and impactful work. For 30+ years, we’ve delivered extraordinary impact together with our clients by helping them solve complex business problems with technology as the differentiator. Bring your brilliant expertise and commitment for continuous learning to Thoughtworks. Together, let’s be extraordinary.


