Linux Platform Software Team Lead
About the Role
We are seeking applicants for a leading well established product engineering and software development company, a Linux Platform Software Team Lead to guide a team of Linux platform software engineers. This role is crucial for the design, development, and continuous enhancement of the Linux userspace platform for our next-generation connected security and access control products. You will be responsible for the Linux platform architecture, creating reusable system services, middleware, and microservices that serve as the foundation for multiple products. This position involves defining interfaces between the operating system, hardware, cloud services, companion MCUs, and product applications, while also mentoring the team and coordinating technical activities across the project.
Location: Kochi / Trivandrum Work Mode: Onsite
Key Responsibilities
Team Leadership: Lead and mentor a team of Linux Platform Software Engineers.
Platform Architecture: Design and maintain the Linux userspace architecture,



developing reusable platform services and software components shared across multiple products.
Platform Services: Develop and maintain system services and microservices supporting configuration management, diagnostics, logging, security, OTA updates, cloud connectivity, event management, and rules processing.
IPC & Integration: Design and implement robust inter-process communication (IPC) using technologies such as D-Bus, gRPC, Unix Domain Sockets, shared memory, and message queues. Integrate platform services with embedded Linux, companion MCUs, cloud services, and product applications.
Software Design & Development: Develop modular, multithreaded, event-driven software with a solid focus on scalability, maintainability, performance, and reliability.
Technical Leadership: Provide technical leadership across hardware, BSP, application, cloud, and system architecture teams throughout the product lifecycle.
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📌 Linux Platform Software Team Lead (Thiruvananthapuram)
🏢 Knowledge Artisans Private
📍 Thiruvananthapuram