Software Engineer - Virtualization

Job description

About The Job:

We are looking for a Software Engineer to join the virtualization group in the Core Platforms team in Bangalore, India. In this role, you will work on low-level systems development, focusing on kernel-level device drivers and optimizing hardware-level communication to run high-performance guest workloads on modern virtualization stacks. If you have solid C programming skills, a strong grasp of operating system fundamentals, and a passion for solving deep technical challenges at the OS level, this role is for you.

What you will do:

• Writing, modifying, and debugging operating system drivers and low-level kernel components.

• Developing and optimizing hypervisor architectures and managing guest operating system interactions.

• Working with standardized, high-performance interfaces for virtualized devices (network, storage, console) to achieve near-native performance.

• Utilizing advanced system debuggers and telemetry tools to diagnose kernel panics, crashes, memory leaks, and performance bottlenecks.

What you will bring:

• 3–5 years of professional software development experience, with at least 2 years of hands-on programming in C.

• A strong conceptual understanding of Operating Systems (OS architecture, memory management, threads/processes, interrupts, and concurrency).

• Experience troubleshooting complex issues. You should be comfortable reading kernel/virtualization logs when standard print statements aren't enough.

• Basic familiarity with x86/x64 CPU architecture (registers, virtual memory, paging).

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