The relationship between Facebook and Linux kernel is moving towards a improved stage as a enrollment is happening to get more developers on Mark Zuckerberg’s board. A job ad from the social networking giant says they are looking for a Linux kernel software engineer, who will mainly work on the networking subsystem.
As reported by The Social Network, Facebook said, “Our goal over the next few years is for the Linux kernel network stack to rival or exceed that of FreeBSD.” The duties will include providing better IPv6 assistance to the Linux kernel as Facebook is a considered as “…one of the worlds largest IPv6 deployments.” The employ will be a part of developing emerging protocols like MPTCP – the multipath TCP project. Recently it received disapproval for challenging security norms and also posed threat to Google’s QUIC protocol.
The developer is required to help improve “kernel stability, performance, observability, and manageability.” The right candidate should have the knowledge of kernel code, hold five years’ experience in writing kernel code, depth in knowledge of TCP and UDP, and other kernel modules should also be in his/her knowledge.
