Crusoe
Senior Staff Linux Security Engineer
$250K–$300K
Sunnyvale, CA - US · On-site · Senior Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 6, 2026
- Experience
- Minimum 5 years of relevant industry experience, with at least 3 years focused on low-level operating systems or kernel security.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
About the job
Strengthen Linux kernel and operating-system security for Crusoe’s AI cloud, including vulnerability response, hardening, and hypervisor isolation.
What you'll do
- Triage kernel CVEs, implement hardening, and backport security fixes.
- Audit and improve kernel, driver, OS, and Cloud Hypervisor security; establish CI guardrails and fuzzing coverage.
- Provide security-focused code reviews, incident response support, and technical guidance to engineering teams.
What they ask for
- Deep knowledge of Linux kernel internals and security vulnerabilities, mitigations, and exploitation techniques.
- Secure coding experience, particularly in C, and experience conducting security-focused code reviews.
- Proficiency with kernel debugging and security analysis tools.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a related field; at least 5 years of relevant industry experience, including at least 3 years focused on low-level operating systems or kernel security; able to pass a background check.
Nice to have
- Contributions to kernel security projects or open-source kernel security initiatives.
- Familiarity with hypervisor security, HSMs or TPMs, or kernel-level offensive security.
Pay
up to $250,000 - $300,000 USD + Bonus (base salary; posting does not specify whether range is base salary or total pay)
Tools
Linux, C, GDB, crash, kgdb, valgrind, Cloud Hypervisor, AMD SEV-SNP
AI focus
Secures the Linux kernel and hypervisor infrastructure underpinning AI workloads.
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