
Job Title: Senior Linux Kernel Engineer
Experience: 5–10 Years
Location: Bangalore / Chennai
Domain: Enterprise Linux / Kernel Development
Job Summary
We are seeking a highly skilled Senior Linux Kernel Engineer with deep expertise in kernel development, debugging, and performance optimization. The role involves working on enterprise-grade Linux distributions, kernel lifecycle management, security patching, and low-level hardware integration.
Key Responsibilities
1. Kernel Lifecycle & Maintenance
- Lead kernel upgrade strategies (e.g., LTS migrations such as 5.15 → 6.x) while ensuring stability and compatibility.
- Perform patch porting across kernel versions, resolving API and dependency conflicts.
- Track and mitigate security vulnerabilities by monitoring CVEs and upstream sources (e.g., LKML).
- Backport critical fixes to production kernels without impacting system stability.
2. Debugging & System Stability
- Act as an escalation point for kernel panics and system crashes.
- Perform post-mortem analysis using kdump, crash, and gdb.
- Debug early boot issues (UEFI, initramfs, kernel initialization).
- Conduct performance analysis using eBPF, ftrace, and perf to optimize system behavior.
3. Driver Development & Hardware Integration
- Design, develop, and maintain device drivers (network, storage, GPU, or character devices).
- Work closely with hardware through DMA, interrupts (MSI-X), and register-level programming.
- Maintain out-of-tree drivers using DKMS or similar frameworks.
- Ensure compatibility of drivers across kernel updates.
Required Technical Skills
- Programming: Strong expertise in C (mandatory) and C++
- Kernel Internals: Deep understanding of:
- Virtual File System (VFS)
- Memory Management (MMU, Paging)
- Process Scheduler
- Linux Networking Stack
- Debugging Tools:
- kdump, crash, gdb
- kprobes, trace-cmd, ftrace
- perf, valgrind
- Hardware debugging tools (JTAG, Serial Console)
- Build Systems:
- Kbuild, Makefiles
- Kernel packaging (RPM/Debian)
- Security:
- Experience with CVE patching and backporting
- Knowledge of SELinux/AppArmor
- Kernel hardening (FIPS, KSPP)
Preferred Skills
- Experience contributing to open-source kernel projects
- Familiarity with Linux Kernel Mailing List (LKML) workflows
- Exposure to enterprise Linux distributions (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE)
- Experience with performance tuning and system optimization at scale
1. Core Programming (C Language)
- Must have strong hands-on experience in C programming
- Comfortable with pointers, memory management, and low-level concepts
2. Kernel Internals Expertise
- Should have worked in at least one subsystem:
- VFS / File Systems
- Memory Management
- Scheduler / Networking
3. Debugging & Crash Analysis
- Experience handling kernel panics
- Hands-on with vmcore analysis tools
4. Security & Patching
- Understanding of CVE fixes and backporting
5. Driver Development
- Experience in writing or maintaining device drivers
6. Performance & Advanced Debugging
- Exposure to eBPF, ftrace, perf
7. Hardware-Level Understanding
- Knowledge of DMA, interrupts, hardware interaction
Soft Skills
- Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in collaborative environments
- Quick learner with adaptability to new technologies

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- Job Title: Staff Engineer
- Industry: Technology
- Domain - Information technology (IT)
- Experience Required: 9-12 years
- Employment Type: Full Time
- Job Location: Bengaluru
- CTC Range: Best in Industry
Role & Responsibilities
As a Staff Engineer at company, you will play a critical role in defining and driving our backend architecture as we scale globally. You’ll own key systems that handle high volumes of data and transactions, ensuring performance, reliability, and maintainability across distributed environments.
Key Responsibilities-
- Own one or more core applications end-to-end, ensuring reliability, performance, and scalability.
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of complex, distributed systems, frameworks, and libraries aligned with company’s technical strategy.
- Drive engineering operational excellence by defining robust roadmaps for system reliability, observability, and performance improvements.
- Analyze and optimize existing systems for latency, throughput, and efficiency, ensuring they perform at scale.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Infrastructure teams to translate business requirements into technical deliverables.
- Mentor and guide engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, ownership, and continuous learning.
- Establish and uphold coding standards, conduct design and code reviews, and promote best practices across teams.
- Stay ahead of the curve on emerging technologies, frameworks, and patterns to strengthen company’s technology foundation.
- Contribute to hiring by identifying and attracting top-tier engineering talent.
Ideal Candidate
- Strong staff engineer profile
- Must have 9+ years in backend engineering with Java, Spring/Spring Boot, and microservices building large and schalable systems
- Must have been SDE-3 / Tech Lead / Lead SE for at least 2.5 years
- Strong in DSA, system design, design patterns, and problem-solving
- Proven experience building scalable, reliable, high-performance distributed systems
- Hands-on with SQL/NoSQL databases, REST/gRPC APIs, concurrency & async processing
- Experience in AWS/GCP, CI/CD pipelines, and observability/monitoring
- Excellent ability to explain complex technical concepts to varied stakeholders
- Product companies (B2B SAAS preferred)
- Must have stayed for at least 2 years with each of the previous companies
- (Education): B.Tech in computer science from Tier 1, Tier 2 colleges
We are a tech venture which provides Product Engineering, QA Automation, Infrastructure, Data, and Market Research services.
Technical Proficiency :
Must have :
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Strong development experience in Python in the environment of Unix/Linux/Ubuntu
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Strong practical knowledge of Python and its libraries.
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Current working experience with cloud deployment of AWS/Azure/GCP, Microservice architecture, and Docker in Python.
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Good knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps practices
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Good Experience of Python with Django/ Scrapy/ Flask frameworks.
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Good Experience in Jupyter/ Docker/ Elastic Search, etc.
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Solid understanding of software development principles and best practices.
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Strong analytical thinking and problem-solving skills.
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Proven ability to drive large-scale projects with a deep understanding of Agile SDLC, high collaboration, and leadership.
Good to have : -
Expected to have migration experience from one version to the other, as this project is about migration to the latest version.
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Preferred if had an OpenEdx platform experience or any LMS platform.
A highly motivated, skilled, and 3-8 years experienced JAVA Software Engineer to implement innovative solutions with a proven track record developing end-to-end scientific or business applications in JAVA with emphasis on browser-based applications.
You have oodles of experience designing and developing and documenting Enterprise applications using J2EE technologies. You have worked extensively on the new breed of Enterprise applications utilizing cutting edge technologies such as Java, JavaScript, JPA, Hibernate, spring Batch and web services.
You bring to the table…
- Object oriented skills, including an understanding of common object and web application design patterns.
- Strong in Core Java Concepts, JavaScript, JPA, Hibernate, spring, Batch, web services.
- Hands on experience with SQL
- Should possess hands of experience on Linux.
Roles and Responsibilities :
- Design, Develop, test and maintain software applications with MVC architectures, Microservices and scalable cloud-native apps.
- Perform hands-on coding and provide thoughtful code reviews
- Mentor and lead team members to continuously improve the quality and productivity of deliverables
- Demonstrate ability to work within an agile team as well as collaborate with many other teams on design and implementation strategies. Follow SCRUM Agile Development methodology
- Effective Communication Skills- An ability to express your ideas to the recipient & Co-ordinate and communicate with the cross-functional team along with the client's team
- Problem Solving, Hustler - Get Stuff Done, Self-Disciplined Open-minded, User-Focused, Adaptive
- Lean Principles & Analytical Thinking
- Project planning, timelines and milestones for execution and deliverables
- Participate in the Evaluation Review of your team member
Primary Skills
- Expert in Python with experience on Django.
- Expert in server programming, you should be able to implement complex business logic.
- Good understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture.
- Good understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application.
- Knowledge of event-driven programming in Python.
- Experience with python packages like Numpy, pandas, flask, Pyspark, pymongo, os, logging, re, pyyaml.
- Experience with swagger io module to expose API
- Strong unit test and debugging skills.
- At least 2 years of experience in RESTful API/HTTP/JSON`
- Knowledge of AWS cloud and python Boto lib.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools Like Git.
- Good understanding of Linux OS.
Secondary Skills:
- AWS Kinesis
- Web Sockets
- RAbbitMQ
- AWS Cloud formation
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Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Computer Applications, Mathematics, Statistics, or related technical field. Relevant experience of at least 3 years in lieu of above if from a different stream of education.
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Well-versed in and 3+ hands-on demonstrable experience with: ▪ Stream & Batch Big Data Pipeline Processing using Apache Spark and/or Apache Flink.
▪ Distributed Cloud Native Computing including Server less Functions
▪ Relational, Object Store, Document, Graph, etc. Database Design & Implementation
▪ Micro services Architecture, API Modeling, Design, & Programming -
3+ years of hands-on development experience in Apache Spark using Scala and/or Java.
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Ability to write executable code for Services using Spark RDD, Spark SQL, Structured Streaming, Spark MLLib, etc. with deep technical understanding of Spark Processing Framework.
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In-depth knowledge of standard programming languages such as Scala and/or Java.
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3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more libraries & frameworks such as Apache Kafka, Akka, Apache Storm, Apache Nifi, Zookeeper, Hadoop ecosystem (i.e., HDFS, YARN, MapReduce, Oozie & Hive), etc.; extra points if you can demonstrate your knowledge with working examples.
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3+ years of hands-on development experience in one or more Relational and NoSQL datastores such as PostgreSQL, Cassandra, HBase, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, Neo4J, etc.
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Practical knowledge of distributed systems involving partitioning, bucketing, CAP theorem, replication, horizontal scaling, etc.
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Passion for distilling large volumes of data, analyze performance, scalability, and capacity performance issues in Big Data Platforms.
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Ability to clearly distinguish system and Spark Job performances and perform spark performance tuning and resource optimization.
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Perform benchmarking/stress tests and document the best practices for different applications.
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Proactively work with tenants on improving the overall performance and ensure the system is resilient, and scalable.
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Good understanding of Virtualization & Containerization; must demonstrate experience in technologies such as Kubernetes, Istio, Docker, OpenShift, Anthos, Oracle VirtualBox, Vagrant, etc.
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Well-versed with demonstrable working experience with API Management, API Gateway, Service Mesh, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection & Encryption.
Hands-on experience with demonstrable working experience with DevOps tools and platforms viz., Jira, GIT, Jenkins, Code Quality & Security Plugins, Maven, Artifactory, Terraform, Ansible/Chef/Puppet, Spinnaker, etc.
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Well-versed in AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud; must demonstrate experience in at least FIVE (5) services offered under AWS and/or Azure or and/or Google Cloud in any categories: Compute or Storage, Database, Networking & Content Delivery, Management & Governance, Analytics, Security, Identity, & Compliance (or) equivalent demonstrable Cloud Platform experience.
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Good understanding of Storage, Networks and Storage Networking basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud environment.
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Good understanding of Network, Data, and Application Security basics which will enable you to work in a Cloud as well as Business Applications / API services environment.
Job Description
Required Skills:
- Demonstrated and strong experience with Java Development (1.8 and above), Spring Boot, ability to design API and RESTful services, and an understanding of transactions
- Strong experience writing Microservices using Java 1.8 and above.
- Good Experience in Behavior Driven Design ( Cucumber , Gherkin ).
- Data design experience in application, noSQL, familiarity with modern technology and architecture (cloud, virtualization, object stores, etc.), and experience with SDLC tools and agile development methodology
- Experience with Angular JS preferred.
- Experience with spring cloud , swagger and devOps tools preferred
- Experience in Domain Driven Design preferred.
- Experience with Mulesoft preferred.
- Experience in SAFe Agile methodology preferred.
- Experience in building presentation layers using Front-end technologies
- Good problem solving skills and strong analytical skills.
- Ability to lead technology initiatives, develop reports, dashboards, and processes to continuously monitor data quality and integrity, an ability to interpret system / business requirements and prepare specification and design document.
Desired Skills:
- Java, J2EE, JDBC , EJB, Servlets,, Messaging Platform, Agile waterfall
- Relevant Experience : Minimum 2 Years
- You have prior experience developing and working on consumer facing web/app products
- Hands-on experience on Python. Exceptions can be made if you’re really good on any other language with experience on building web/app based tech products
- Experience in at least one of the following frameworks - Django, Flask, Falcon, web2py, Twisted, Tornado
- Working knowledge of MySQL, MongoDB, Redis
- Good understanding of Data Structures, Algorithms and Operating Systems
- You've worked with core AWS services in the past and have experience with EC2, ELB, AutoScaling, CloudFront, S3
- You can dabble in Frontend codebases using HTML, CSS and Javascript
- You love doing things efficiently. At Fynd, the work you do will have a disproportionate impact on the business. We believe in systems and processes that let us scale our impact to be larger than ourselves
- You might not have experience with all the tools that we use but you can learn those given the guidance and resources
1 Bachelor’s / Masters’ degree from a reputed university
2 Technical certifications in Java is a good to have. Other programming certifications and
experience e.g., Python or C# is a plus.
3 Years of experience: 4-7 years for Senior Developer and 0-3 years for Developer
Technical Competencies
1 Hands on experience in writing software applications, in particular server side and backend
applications. Web development expertise is a plus.
2 Software development expertise
• Server technologies – Java based application development. Familiarity with various
Java based development frameworks. Spring development experience is a plus.
• Database technologies - Knowledge and familiarity with SQL. Experience with MySQL
as well as NoSQL databases such as MongoDB is a plus.
• Cloud technologies – Experience in building applications on cloud platforms,
especially on MS Azure, including familiarity with Cloud APIs, is a plus.
• Web technologies – Experience building web applications with JavaScript, CSS,
HTML, and expertise with frameworks such as Angular, Express, Node and others
3 Experience in agile software development and development in sprints

• Construct, develop, code, debug and maintain applications.
• Conform to define software design methodology for the development and implementation of Internet based application to support all aspects of web site functionalities.
• Perform code review and evaluation and determine recommendations for adaptation.
• Creation of Low-Level Design Document from Functional Specification and Technical design document.
• Generate application test data as necessary and validate any data conversion requirements for final implementation and production roll out.
• Being responsible for the analysis, design and development of certain key business application
Skills Required
I. Hands on experience on Dialogic/Telesoft SIGTRAN/TDM Stack and its configurations
II. Understanding and implementation of SS7 signalling servers
III. Good experience on SS7 protocols like MTP, SCCP, TCAP, ISUP, MAP layers and SMPP Protocol
IV. Must have Strong C and C++ programming skills on Linux developing multi- threaded applications.
V. Working knowledge of MySQL and other relational DB.
VI. Will add more advantage, if Working knowledge of any products like SMSC, MCA, USSD, OBD, IB
Education: B.Tech/BE or MCA (Computers) Regular
The opportunity
The Engineering Manager (EM)is responsible for a managing a team of full stack engineers that is building highly innovative and cutting edge solutions. This role is accountable for leading a team, developing code, deploying and managing in production. Most importantly, the EM, while working with the Product owners drives the product Net promoter score (NPS), user satisfaction, building the product roadmap and delivering highly functional, exceptionally innovative and intelligent software. You will be called upon to be the technical representative for your team during cross-team collaborative efforts and planning. Success in this role will require strong and innovative approaches to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, accountability and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.
You are great at
As an Engineering Manager, you’ll take the lead as you - drive product development, operations and technical decision making. You’ll have a strong focus on team management and development, equal focus will be on writing production code and hands on active development of the capabilities and solutions. Assist in defining infrastructure need and use enterprise solution and drive resolution of technology roadblocks including code, infrastructure, build and deployment. Manage overall software development cycle by adhering to development and security standards. Establish good stakeholder communication and work closely with Product teams and influence set product roadmap and help drive requirements while being a strong advocate of extreme agile and DevOps practices across engineers. Build and manage a team of high performing full stack engineers and provide leadership, coaching, motivation and recommend staffing levels, operating procedures, tools and systems for the team. Provide career development and performance management to a team of engineers.
Required Candidate Profile
- 4 year degree in or equivalent experience
- 8+ years of engineering (software development) experience
- 1-3 years of managing teams with a strong track record of delivery for cross-functional product experience with Cloud hosting and managing products
- Proficient in building high performing APIs and writing specs
- Expertise in programming languages. Hands on experience in Java, J2ee technologies is preferred.
- Experience in SAP Hybris Commerce would be a plus
- Experience with integration, data handling technologies and other open source frameworks
- Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present complex technical information in a clear and concise manner to variety of audiences
- Team-orientated, passionate about developing others’ skills and capabilities
- Successful track record of working in large scale technology solutions
- Deep understanding of agile development processes and methodology including continuous integration and delivery, with a mindset of building incrementally and delivering business value quickly






