# Linux Systems Software Developer– Security Solutions

**Company**: HP
**Location**: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are looking for a Linux Systems Software Developer to join the HP Wolf Security R&D team in Cambridge, UK.

You will be responsible for maintaining a Linux image used by virtual machine guests, keeping its open-source components up to date, as well as proactively monitoring for, and quickly responding to, security vulnerabilities that impact these components.

**Responsibilities:**

- Developing and maintaining core components of an enterprise-class product

- Improving security, reliability, and performance of the product

- Responding quickly to security vulnerability reports for open-source components in the product, and rapidly integrating security fixes

- Keeping open-source components in the product up to date, identifying and solving any problems that new versions may present

- Writing unit tests and automated tests

- Working in a fast-paced environment that iterates and evolves rapidly

**Requirements:**

- Expert programming experience in C or C++

- Experience of Linux systems development using Yocto Project

- Experience with Linux user and kernel mode development

- Experience of debugging complex systems problems

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or related technical field or equivalent

**Nice to have:**

- Understanding of components in the OSI networking model with emphasis on TCP/IP protocols

- Experience with black box debugging

- Experience with Windows system (user and/or kernel mode) development

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Linux
- Yocto Project
- TCP/IP

### Nice to have
- black box debugging
- Windows system development

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