Principal Software Engineer - Virtualization
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India • Posted June 06, 2026
Role Description
About the Job :
We are seeking a highly skilled Principal Software Engineer with Windows Device Driver Developer experience to join our core engineering team in Bangalore, India. 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...
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