Principal Software Engineer

About the role

About the Job : The Red Hat Engineering teams are looking for highly skilled systems engineers with Windows Device Driver Developer experience to join our core engineering team in Bangalore. This role is pivotal to our virtualization strategy, focusing on the seamless interoperability of Windows Guest Operating Systems within the Kernel based Virtual Machine stack. You will be responsible for building the "bridge" that allows Windows guests to run with near-native performance, stability, and deep integration on Linux-hosted infrastructure. What you will do: • Design, develop, and maintain high-performance Windows kernel-mode drivers (WDM/KMDF) specifically for virtualized environments. • Optimize the Windows-on-KVM stack by implementing "enlightenments" and specialized drivers (e.g., VirtIO) to reduce hypervisor overhead. • Debug complex, low-level interactions between the Windows kernel, the virtual hardware abstraction layer, and the KVM/QEMU host. • Build and maintain internal diagnostic tools to monitor driver health and performance  • Work closely with Linux Kernel/KVM specialists to align host-side features with guest-side driver requirements. • Identify and resolve race conditions, memory leaks, and BSODs (Blue Screens of Death) occurring in virtualized contexts. What you will bring: • Expert C/C++ Programming: Mastery of systems-lev

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