Hedgehog
CA
Dec 03, 2025
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About Hedgehog
Hedgehog is an open source software company dedicated to giving Cloud Native application owners the ability to deploy workloads on edge compute and distributed cloud infrastructure with the same procurement power and automated operations that power the public cloud. Hedgehog helps customers escape vendor lock, automate mass-scale infrastructure operations, and reduce their cost of service. Hedgehog is a member of the Open Compute Project, The Linux Foundation, and the SONiC community.
Hedgehog Values
Family
All for one and one for all! When you join Hedgehog you join a family. We are a community of friends who enjoy working together. We try really hard to understand each others values and discern whether our values are compatible. If they are, we treat each other with the love and respect we would treat a family member.
Trust
We need to know you can get the job. We need to know you have our backs. We trust that we can make each other successful. If we can’t trust each other, we can’t succeed.
Honesty
Transparency builds trust. We always strive to be as transparent, open and honest as possible. We aren’t passive aggressive, opaque or two-faced. We say what we mean and we mean what we say. That doesn’t mean that we are blunt, rude, or aggressive. It means that we are open with ourselves, our teammates, our partners and our customers. We’re in the business of open-source software after all. We should walk the walk when we talk the talk.
Fairness
Politics suck. Favoritism sucks even more. Be a good human. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. Kick ass and you will be rewarded. Fail and we will help you succeed. Loose trust and we will let you know you need to have our backs.
Innovation
We take risk to join a community like Hedgehog because we want to build, market, sell and support a really great product that delivers incredible value for customers. We are in the tech business because we love the creative destruction of innovation. We love to disrupt the status quo, and we love to make people happy when they use our stuff.
Fun
Work should be fun. A lot of fun. We all want to love what we do. Life is short. It’s too short to not have fun doing what we do at least five days a week. Work can be hard at times, but we put in the effort because we feel satisfied with the results we achieve and the relationships we build. When we consistently feel that work is not fun, we introspect to understand why so we can get back to having fun again.
Care
As much as we want to make Hedgehog a family, we all obviously have actual families outside of work. Family comes first. If you need time, space or support to take care of your family and yourself, we go out of our way to give you what you need.
Hedgehog Benefits
- World class team
- Fun culture
- Engaging and interesting engineering problems
- Competitive salary
- Startup equity
- Health Insurance (Medical, Dental, Vision)
- Unlimited time off
- Work from home (fully remote, USA based candidates only)
- Laptop, IT equipment
Be one of the key members of the hedgehog engineering team. Drive and fulfill the vision around Hedgehog Distributed Cloud Network Fabric. Modernize, modularize, and secure networking for the modern world. Enable Hedgehog to be the true de-facto choice of people deploying open networking solutions. Be the face of our company in the Open Source community.
QualificationsThis is a dream job for anyone who wants to geek out on Linux kernel, security, and low-level chip interfaces for a living. This is a hard-core coding position.
Prerequisites:
- 7+ years of relevant hardcore Linux systems/platform experience.
- We don't care what degree you have; what matters is what you've done and what you can do.
Skills/experience required:
- Fluency in at least one of the following programming languages [ more = better ]: Go, C, C++, or Rust
- Experience with Linux platform development
- Understanding and experience with Linux kernel.
- Experience with chip interfaces, drivers, and other low-level goodness
- Experience with system bring-up
- Understanding and experience with Linux security
- Working knowledge of hardware root of trust, secure boot
- Experience with UEFI, BIOS, TPM
- Understanding and experience with Linux Networking
Beneficial skills/experience:
- Experience with ONIE (Open Network Install Environment) and other boot, pre-boot environments.
- Experience with SmartNICs/DPUs/IPUs
- Experience with networking for AI or HPC environments
Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
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