
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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Join company as a Backend Developer and become a pivotal force in building the robust, scalable services that power our innovative platforms. In this role, you will design, develop, and maintain server‑side applications, ensuring high performance and reliability for millions of users. You’ll collaborate closely with cross‑functional product, front‑end, and DevOps teams to translate business requirements into clean, efficient code, while participating in code reviews and architectural discussions. Our dynamic environment encourages continuous learning, offering opportunities to work with cutting‑edge technologies, cloud infrastructures, and modern development practices. As a key contributor, your work will directly impact product quality, user satisfaction, and the overall success of company's mission to streamline hiring solutions.
Requirements:
- 1–15 years of professional experience in backend development, with a strong focus on building APIs and microservices.
- Proficiency in server‑side languages such as Python, Java, Node.js, or Go, and solid understanding of object‑oriented and functional programming paradigms.
- Extensive experience with relational (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL) and NoSQL databases (e.g., MongoDB, Redis), including schema design and query optimization.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
- Hands‑on experience with version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, and automated testing frameworks.
- Strong problem‑solving abilities, effective communication skills, and a collaborative mindset for working within multidisciplinary teams.
Roles and Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain high‑throughput backend services and RESTful APIs that support core product features.
- Implement data models and storage solutions, ensuring data integrity, security, and optimal performance.
- Collaborate with front‑end engineers, product managers, and designers to define technical requirements and deliver end‑to‑end solutions.
- Participate in code reviews, provide constructive feedback, and uphold coding standards and best practices.
- Monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize production systems, implementing robust logging, alerting, and performance tuning.
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Budget:
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🚀 Were Hiring: Staff Engineer – Computer Vision & Machine Learning 🚀
📍 Location: Gurugram
💼 Experience: 7-10 Years
About the Role
We are seeking a passionate Computer Vision and Machine Learning expert to develop advanced solutions in medical imaging. If you’re excited about challenges like image segmentation, object detection, and 3D reconstruction, let’s connect!
Mandatory Technical Skills:
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At LambdaTest, We help developers and testers fix their applications across a combination of 2000+ browsers and Operating Systems by providing a complete cross-browser ecosystem on the cloud. As Backend Developer You will work with other Developers throughout the Software Development Life Cycle.
You will join a dynamic and fast-paced environment and work with cross-functional teams to design, build and roll out product that deliver the company’s vision and strategy.
What’s the Opportunity?
- As a hands-on engineering professional, you'll stay on top of the details and will be more focused on building a better, more efficient program and creating the best user experience and
- Support and collaborate with our service engineers in getting to the bottom of issues and come up with robust solutions.
- Produce high quality software that is unit tested, code reviewed, and checked in regularly for continuous integration.
- Participate in a culture of code reviews, writing tech specs, and collaborating closely with other people.
- Design distributed systems using micro services architecture would be plus.
- Implementing high performance and non-blocking systems to serve traffic heavy SaaS based product.
Requirements and qualifications-
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of technical education with 2-4 Years of work experience.
- Experience with one or more general purpose programming languages, including but not limited to:Python, Golang, NodeJs
- A solid understanding of software construction
- The ability to naturally follow good development practices like test automation, CI/CD, source version control, etc.
Software Developer
Roles and Responsibilities
- Apply knowledge set to fetch data from multiple online sources, cleanse it and build APIs on top of it
- Develop a deep understanding of our vast data sources on the web and know exactly how, when, and which data to scrap, parse and store
- We're looking for people who will naturally take ownership of data products and who can bring a project all the way from a fast prototype to production.
Desired Candidate Profile
- At Least 1-2 years of experience
- Strong coding experience in Python (knowledge of Javascripts is a plus)
- Strong knowledge of scraping frameworks in Python (Request, Beautiful Soup)
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases
- Knowledge in Version Control tools like GIT.
- Good understanding and hands-on with scheduling and managing tasks with cron.
Nice to have:
- Experience of having worked with elastic search
- Experience with multi-processing, multi-threading, and AWS/Azure is a plus
- Experience with web crawling is a plus
- Deploy server/related components to staging, live environments.
- Experience with cloud environments like AWS,etc as well as cloud solutions like Docker,Lambda, etc
- Experience in DevOps and related practices to improve development lifecycle, continuous delivery with high quality is an advantage.
- Compile and analyze data, processes, and codes to troubleshoot problems and identify areas for improvement
- Experience in Java and associated technologies Core Java, JSP, Spring, Struts,RESTful Services,SOAP,Tomcat, Hibernate, Maven
- Strong understanding of OOPS concepts
- Proficient understanding of RDBMS Concepts
- Strong understanding of Databases Oracle / MSQL / MySQL etc and PL/SQL Programming
• Strong in Java 8 - streaming and non-blocking APIs
• Strong in Collection, generics, Data Structure and multi-threading
• Designing patterns and SOLID principles
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About Hop:
We are a London, UK based FinTech startup with a subsidiary in India. Hop is working towards building the next generation digital banking platform for seamless and economical currency exchange, with technology at the crux of it. In a technology driven era, many financial services platforms still lack the customer experience and are cumbersome to use. Hop aims at building a ‘state of the art’ tech-centric, customer focused solution.
moneyHOP is India’s first cross-border neo-bank providing millennials the ability to ‘Send’ & ‘Spend’ conveniently and economically across the globe using HOPRemit (An online remittance portal) and HOP app + Card (A multi-currency bank account).
This position is a crucially important position in the firm and the person hired will have the liberty to drive the product and provide direction in line with business needs.
About Individual
Looking for an enthusiastic individual who is passionate about technology and has worked with either a start-up or a blue-chip firm in the past.
The candidate needs to be a multi-tasker, highly self-motivated, self-starter and have the ability to work in a high stress environment. He/she should be tech savvy and willing to embrace new technology comfortably.
Ideally, the candidate should have experience working with the technology stack in the scalable and high growth mobile application software.
General Skills
- 1-2 years of experience in backend development.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Science, or equivalent practical experience.
- Exposure to Behaviour Driven Development and experience in programming and testing.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Good time management and organizational skills.
- Dependability
- Accountability and Ownership
- Right attitude and growth mindset
- Trust-worthiness
- Ability to embrace new technologies
- Ability to get work done
- Has good code reviewing skills for conformance.
- Has good software testing skills and good code writing skills.
Technical Skills
- Exposure with back-end programming languages with hands on JAVA, Node JS etc along with Spring framework.
- Database administration and management of a hosting environment such as AWS.
- Sound understanding of relational and non-relational DB systems such as MySQL, Post-gres, MongoDB etc.
- Has experience dealing with JIRA (issue tracking tools), Confluence (knowledge management) tools.
- Experience with building and maintaining microservices.
- Experience with building and integrating the core system with external APIS.
- Good to have: Domain knowledge in the BFSI tech stack.
- Has handled scalability and worked on backend security protocols.
- Has worked on both mobile and web development.
- Has experience and inclination to work on architectural design and review.
Day-to-Day Responsibilities
- Contribute in all phases of the software development life cycle.
- Partake in software and architectural development activities.
- Conduct software analysis, programming, unit-testing and debugging.
- Transforming requirements into functional modules.
- Recommend changes to improve established application processes.
- Work quickly with a clear bias towards actions and continuous development.
- Participate in regular code reviews of peers and be open to pairing when necessary.
About the opportunity
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- You will push your design and architecture limits for new product development.
- You will collaborate with product managers, and other key stakeholders within the MMT family to successfully execute projects.
- You will ensure compliance with build/release and configuration management process.
What you’ll bring to the table:
- You possess good understanding of Agile Methodology, Object Oriented Programming Concepts and Responsive Designs.
- You have hands-on experience on Java/ J2EE stack and have done development across multiple browsers/platforms delivering mind-boggling results.
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Our Purpose and Challenges
With over 47% market-share, MakeMyTrip is India’s first and biggest travel company. In fact, one in every four passengers at an airport is our customer. Driven by the desire to provide an exceptional travel experience for our customers, we have continuously stayed ahead of the curve by developing technology and products to meet the ever-changing demands of the rapidly evolving travel ecosystem.
We are currently solving multiple challenging problems, including -
- How to bring the next 100 million users to our platform?
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• Strong experience as a Java/J2EE development is required
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• Experience with any of the following Frameworks is Desired: Spring, Spring Boot, Hibernate
• Fundamental understanding of design patterns
• Working knowledge of SOAP/XML/WSDL
• Proven experience in MongoDB
• Experience supporting and troubleshooting problems in a highly complex environment
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• Proficient understanding of Code version tools like Git/ Bitbucket and SVN
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• Working closely with end-users and other members of the team to identify and employ the best solutions
• Developing and implementing strong algorithms/techniques for solving problems in a high-volume, high-availability environment
• Engaging end-users to identify new requirements, strategic direction and highlight issues
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