Software Engineer (Kernel)
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 4, 2026. First seen by Alion on Sep 21, 2026. Capgemini scores B on the Alion truth index.
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Your role
You will join a dynamic and innovative team working on a cutting-edge cloud infrastructure migration project for a leading accounting SaaS company. As part of the Virtualization team, you will be at the heart of a technically challenging initiative - migrating a high-performance, column-oriented database cloud solution from Intel to ARM architecture. This is a rare opportunity to work close to the metal, building a virtual layer from scratch, and making a real impact on next-generation cloud infrastructure running on AWS.
Your task
- Designing, building, and maintaining new features for the client's virtualization platform, working at the kernel and driver level on Linux to support the migration from Intel to ARM architecture
- Participating in functional and architectural design discussions, researching and evaluating technical options to implement assigned features with a focus on performance and reliability
- Collaborating closely with team members and relevant stakeholders, reporting feature readiness and quality to the Team Lead while proactively raising concerns in critical situations
- Contributing to code reviews, ensuring code quality and adherence to established software development processes and best practices
- Providing accurate feature estimations, breaking down complex tasks into manageable work items and suggesting technical improvements to continuously add value to the product
Your profile
- 3+ years of hands-on experience with ANSI C programming, with strong knowledge of low-level systems development and memory management
- Solid experience in Linux kernel development and POSIX environments, including driver development and working within Linux system internals
- Proven experience with multi-core and multi-threaded programming, with the ability to design and implement concurrent systems safely and efficiently
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a sufficient level of English for both verbal and written technical communication, including documentation writing
- A proactive and curious mindset with fast research and learning abilities, comfortable working in agile teams and adapting quickly to new technical challenges
What you'll love about working here
- Free access to learning platforms Free access for all to world-class learning assets and curated programs from Harvard Business Review, Coursera, Pluralsight, Udemy, Microsoft, AWS, Google and many more.
- Career acceleration programs From associate to leaders and beyond, get support in your career at every stage with award-winning programs such as our leadership development program, Connected Manager, to accelerate your growth and develop your expertise.
- Global Tech Challenges Capgemini hosts annual group-wide competitions, such as the Global Data Science Challenge and Tech4PositiveFutures. These aim to address world issues like climate change and biodiversity by applying technology for innovative solutions. The Future of X is a Global Ideation Campaign that looks for ideas for iconic anchor R&I projects and demonstrators of Technology. Winning ideas were funded up to 100K€.
Get to know us
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About Capgemini
Capgemini is the business transformation partner for enterprises in the age of AI. We help organizations imagine and build an intelligent, sustainable future, combining AI, technology and human ingenuity to transform how they operate, innovate and grow. With unique end-to-end capabilities spanning strategy, technology, engineering and intelligent operations, we bring together deep industry expertise and market-leading capabilities in AI, cloud and data to turn ambition into measurable business outcomes at scale. Supported by a robust ecosystem of partners and nearly 60 years of expertise, Capgemini is a responsible and diverse global organization of over 410,000 team members in more than 50 countries. The Group reported 2025 revenues of €22.5 billion.
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