Wasmer (YC S19) Is Hiring OS/Hypervisor Experts in Europe

Senior Operating Systems / Hypervisor Engineer

LocationRemote

VisaUS citizenship/visa not required

About the role

Type: Full-time

Build an operating system that runs everywhere

Most engineers spend their careers using operating systems. A few get to build one. This role is for the second group.

At Wasmer, we're building WASIX — an OS emulation layer that brings full POSIX semantics to WebAssembly: threads, processes,fork(), sockets, TTYs, signals, the works. It's the kind of problem where you're reading Linux kernel source in one tab and the WebAssembly spec in another, deciding how mmap should behave on a platform that was never designed to have one.

• WASIX itself — designing and implementing syscall semantics, process and threading models, virtual filesystems, and networking stacks on top of WebAssembly. Where Linux behavior and Wasm constraints collide, you'll be the one deciding what "correct" means.

• The Wasmer runtime — the sandboxing, scheduling, and memory-management machinery that makes thousands of Wasm "processes" run safely and fast on a single host. Think hypervisor problems, at a different layer of the stack.

• Making real software just work — porting and running battle-tested Unix software (curl, bash, PostgreSQL-class programs) unmodified on WASIX, and fixing everything that breaks along the way.

You're probably a fit if you

• Have 5+ years of systems-level engineering experience, with real-world work on Linux internals, hypervisors (KVM, Xen, Firecracker, etc.), or comparable low-level runtimes — not just as a user, but as someone who has debugged, extended, or built them.

• Have a genuine, self-driven interest in OS and hypervisor design — you have opinions about scheduler behavior, memory models, or syscall interfaces, and can defend them.

• Know POSIX deeply: processes, signals, sockets, file descriptors, memory management — the stuff most people only meet through man pages.

• Live in the CET timezone ± 2.

• Contributions to open-source infrastructure (kernels, runtimes, container tech, emulators)

Benefits

• Generous vacation policy.

• Monthly stipend for open-source contributions.

Greenfield OS work is rare. Greenfield OS work with real users is rarer. WASIX already runs real software for real developers — which means your design decisions get stress-tested immediately, not in five years.

You'll join a small, senior, remote team where the interesting problems aren't handed down from an architecture committee — you'll find them, scope them, and solve them. And because we're open source at our core, the work you do here is yours to point at for the rest of your career.

About Wasmer

Wasmer builds the software powering the next generation of computing platforms — local, cloud, and edge — on WebAssembly. Just as Node.js unlocked server-side JavaScript, we're unlocking server-side WebAssembly for every language: C/C++, Rust, Go, Python, and beyond.

How to apply

Talent at Wasmer has to do with having High-Agency and being a Maker.

Be a Maker: build anything. It’s just bits on a machine, make them do what you want.

Send us a message with subject: “Why I’m awesome” with 3 of your most incredible achievements in life (technical and/or personal achievements). E.g. “I ran an ultramarathon in XYZ hours” or “I wrote a Rust crate used by millions of devs each month”. Brag about yourself, and articulate what about it was hard and what outcome came from it. This isn’t a trick question, we’re building a new computing ecosystem and cloud. We do hard things and aim high. Communication is the most important trait for us.

About Wasmer

Read more about us here: https://wasmer.io/posts Read more about our culture and values here: https://wasmer.io/values-and-culture