# Systems Engineer: Linux Kernel Test and Validation at Cedana

- Company: Cedana (YC S23)
- What the company does: Fast, reliable, reproducible AI with GPU live migration. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://cedana.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: US / Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $140K to $180K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/cedana/jobs/BntWOIg-systems-engineer-linux-kernel-test-and-validation
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/cedana-systems-engineer-linux-kernel-test-and-validation/

## About the role

Validate and test automation: Our engineers contribute to and develop testing capabilities. This will be a core part of your initial work to establish your understanding of how our system works. Reliability and testing is a key part of our culture. Measure and optimize platform performance: Get Cedana to the theoretical maximum performance by understanding fundamental bottlenecks. Measure reliability, throughput and performance using our internal tools.

## What they're looking for

- 5-10 years of software engineering experience with Linux Kernel
- CRIU + QEMU live migration + VFIO
- runc / containerd / OCI / namespaces / cgroups v2 / overlayfs
- Performance and latency engineering: characterizes throughput, jitter, and tail latency, uses tracing and profiling tooling (perf, ftrace, eBPF, or equivalent) to localize bottlenecks to a code path
- Systems-level QE: designs and owns automated test infrastructure, performance and regression harnesses, and reproduces kernel-level races and corner cases. Not manual or UI QA
- Enterprise Linux distribution environment (RHEL or equivalent): version matrices, backports, customer-grade triage

Tags: Engineering