About the Job:

The Red Hat Linux Virtualization Networking team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with a deep passion for system-level engineering and low-level operating system components. The RHEL Virtualization group is responsible for all aspects related to Virtualization in Red Hat Enterprise Linux, including system, firmware, device and network emulation, as well as their counterpart aspects in the guest instance on top of Red Hat or third-party virtualized platforms.
In this role, you will design, implement, test, and automate deployment tools and solutions, contributing to industry-leading technologies like Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization and community distributions such as CentOS Stream and Fedora. As part of a geographically distributed team, you will collaborate with multiple Red Hat engineering teams and open-source communities around the globe. This position offers an excellent opportunity to work alongside and learn from some of the brightest engineers in the open-source industry.

What You Will Do?




- Design and develop code to implement recent features and resolve defects primarily in open-source community projects related to virtualization and networking technologies
- Actively contribute to and collaborate with teams enabling new features in Red Hat layered products across virtualization and container solutions.
- Engage actively in the open-source community; review patches and provide technical feedback on community-oriented enhancements and bug fixes.
- Develop and contribute tests into a continuous integration (CI) workflow.
- Work effectively as part of a distributed, agile team.

What You Will Bring ?
- 3+ years of relevant experience in system-level software development for Linux, preferably using C or C++.
- Strong understanding of networking concepts, such as communication layers, protocols, network interfaces and architectures. Experience with packet-level debugging and transport protocols such as TCP is a plus.
- Technical proficiency i

📌 Senior Software Engineer (Bengaluru)
🏢 Red Hat
📍 Bengaluru