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Linux Kernel OS Developer

Company

IBM

Location

Waterford, Ireland

Posted

June 06, 2026

Position Overview

**Introduction**
Are you interested in developing operating systems and contributing to Open Source? Your favorites are Linux and low-level programming? If so, our team is the right place for you!

We are a new IBM team in the entirely new development location of Waterford. Our work enhances the Linux kernel for IBM Z / IBM LinuxOne. We create virtualization concepts (like KVM) and confidential containers for Kubernetes. Of course we do cover the full lifecycle of modern software development as part auf continuous integration (CI/CD).

The new location in Waterford will give you a lot of exciting possibilities. We will tightly collaborate with the international development teams of IBM (like hardware and firmware development), the global maintainers of Open Source communities, and our Linux distribution partners (Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical). Our deliverables will will strengthen the role of Linux on IBM Z / LinuxONE as the basis of many of IBM’s commercial solutions in Clo...

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