Staff Engineer

Position:
Staff Engineer, KernelCare

Company:
TuxCare

Location:
Worldwide remote

Employment type:
Not specified

Work Arrangement:
Fully remote

Short Summary:
We are looking for a hands-on Staff Engineer to join the team building highly reliable pipelines and process automation in the Security field at KernelCare. This role combines deep technical execution with technical product ownership, focusing on significant product components and workstreams.

Responsibilities:
- Own major product components and workstreams throughout their full lifecycle, from initial discovery and planning to production release and ongoing improvement.
- Work directly with engineering, product, sales, and other stakeholders to understand, gather, and clarify business and technical requirements.
- Translate broad and sometimes unclear product goals into technical plans, milestones, and actionable engineering tasks.
- Design scalable system architecture and make technical decisions for high-impact product areas.
- Build, review, and maintain production-grade components end-to-end, ensuring reliability, security, performance, maintainability, and extensibility.
- Take responsibility for delivered components in production and their continued operation and evolution.
- Independently track progress and proactively communicate results, blockers, risks, dependencies, and changing requirements.
- Research relevant technologies, tools, market approaches, and competitor solutions when needed.
- Contribute to engineering quality through design reviews, technical guidance, mentorship, and best practices.

Requirement:
- Proven experience owning major projects or workstreams end-to-end.
- Strong backend engineering experience in Python.
- Comfortable reading and reviewing C language code.
- Strong hands-on Linux background.
- Strong system design and architectural thinking, combined with the ability to implement proposed solutions hands-on.
- Experience gathering and refining requirements and turning broad or unclear needs into technical plans, milestones, and deliverables.
- Strong technical product ownership and an understanding of how engineering decisions support broader product and business goals.
- Ability to work independently without close day-to-day supervision.
- Strong communication skills and confidence working directly with engineering teams, product stakeholders, sales, and other departments.
- Regular use of AI-assisted development tools for planning, implementation, debugging, testing, refactoring, or code review.

Benefits:
- A focus on professional development.
- Interesting and challenging projects.
- Fully remote work with flexible working hours.
- Paid 24 days of vacation per year, 10 days of national holidays, and unlimited sick leaves.
- Compensation for private medical insurance.
- Co-working and gym/sports reimbursement.
- Budget for education.
- Opportunity to receive a reward for the most innovative idea that the company can patent.