# Senior/Staff Virtualization Engineer
**Company:** [Fal](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/fal)
**Location:** San Francisco, CA
**Salary:** $180K-$250K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Kubernetes, Kvm/Qemu, Libvirt, Vfio, Nvidia Gpus, Vxlan, Vlan, BGP, Ecmp, Python, Bash, Ansible, Terraform, Tcpdump, Wireshark
**Posted:** 2026-02-23
> Builds custom compute environments including bare metal/virtual machines with GPU passthrough, dedicated Kubernetes clusters, and overlay networking for customer AI workloads. Requires 5+ years in Linux virtualization, strong networking, Kubernetes on bare metal, and NVIDIA GPU expertise.
## Job Description
## Key Responsibilities

- Build and deliver custom environments with excellent GPU performance for customer workloads
- Leverage AI to an extreme level to automate provisioning, alerting and recovery
- Provision and configure dedicated Kubernetes clusters tailored to customer requirements
- Design and implement overlay networking (VLAN, VXLAN) and routing configurations (ECMP, BGP) and tunnels (strongSwan, IPSEC) for tenant isolation and performance
- Build and maintain Linux images
- Set up network monitoring and diagnostics for customer environments
- Automate the end-to-end lifecycle of customer compute environments: creation, configuration, validation, and teardown

## Requirements

- **5+ years experience** with Linux virtualization: KVM/QEMU, libvirt, VFIO device passthrough, hugepages, NUMA, CPU pinning
- **Strong networking fundamentals**: VXLAN, VLAN, ECMP, BGP, ARP, and the ability to debug packet-level issues (tcpdump, Wireshark)
- Production experience building and operating Kubernetes clusters on bare metal (MetalLB)
- Proficiency with Linux image building and OS provisioning (kickstart, cloud-init, PXE/iPXE)
- Proficiency in **Python, Bash, Ansible and Terraform**
- Deep experience with **NVIDIA GPUs**: drivers, MIG, container runtimes (nvidia-container-toolkit), InfiniBand, RDMA/RoCEv2 and GPUDirect for high-performance AI networking
- Excellent communication and ability to drive technical decisions across teams
- Self-starter who executes quickly, takes ownership, and constantly seeks improvement

## Nice to Have

- Experience with SR-IOV, DPDK, or other high-performance networking technologies
- Experience with shared network storage (Ceph, Lustre, Weka)
- Experience with network automation tools (Netbox, Nautobot, Nornir)

## Compensation

$180,000-250,000 plus equity + benefits
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