Principal Linux Engineer (Embedded)

Role & responsibilities

• Platform Development: Design, build, and maintain a Debian-based Linux platform for our ARM and x86-based connected hardware, utilizing Docker for containerized microservices.
• Application & Service Development: Develop high-performance services using Python 3.12 with asyncio and C for system-level and performance-critical components. Implement on-device user interfaces and media pipelines using GStreamer.
• System Integration & Networking: Integrate and manage communication between services and hardware using protocols like nanomsg, websockets, CAN, and RS485. Maintain secure VPN/mesh overlay networking for remote device connectivity and manage cellular/4G connectivity for field-deployed hardware.
• Cloud & DevOps: Develop and maintain build systems and release pipelines for deploying versioned software to a distributed fleet of devices. Deploy and manage services on cloud platforms. Configure and maintain Debian-based server instances.
• Agentic Tooling & Automation: Design and build custom LLM agent skills and shared automation libraries that give agents safe, permissioned (often read-only or explicitly gated) access to build, deploy, and diagnostic systems turning operational knowledge into executable, source-anchored tooling for build/release workflows, fleet diagnostics, and production investigation.
• Database Management: Implement and manage on-device and cloud-based databases using SQLite.
• Performance Optimization: Ensure low-latency, high-reliability performance of the entire platform, from embedded devices to the cloud, under real-world conditions.
• Debugging & Testing: Troubleshoot complex issues across the stack, including application logic, container orchestration, networking, and hardware-software interactions.

What You Bring

• Experience: 10-15 years of experience in Linux systems engineering, platform development, or a similar role.
• Programming Expertise: Strong proficiency in Python (3.12, asyncio) and C for system-level interaction and performance-critical code.
• Linux Systems: Deep experience with Debian-based systems for embedded and server environments. Strong skills in Linux system engineering and administration.
• Architecture & DevOps: Proven experience with microservices architecture, including building and maintaining build/release systems for embedded or fleet-deployed software.
• Networking & Protocols: Solid understanding of hardware interfaces and messaging protocols like CAN, RS485, nanomsg, and websockets, along with VPN/mesh overlay networking and cellular/4G connectivity for remote, field-deployed devices.
• Cloud Infrastructure: Extensive hands-on experience with AWS is required. Familiarity with other cloud platforms (e.g., GCP, Azure, Digital Ocean) is a plus.
• Modern Tooling: Proficiency in using LLM agents for development to accelerate coding, debugging, and documentation including hands-on experience building and maintaining custom agent skills/tools, shared automation libraries, and safety-gated interfaces (read-only by default, explicit escalation for anything destructive) that let agents operate reliably against production systems.
• Bonus Skills: Familiarity with GStreamer-based media pipelines, experience with RTOS like Zephyr on STM32 microcontrollers, and/or containerization experience (Docker, Kubernetes) are all strong advantages.
• Mindset: A strong problem-solving mindset with the ability to thrive in a fast-paced startup environment, including occasional flexibility to support live, fielded hardware outside standard hours.
• Location: Based in Bengaluru with the ability to work full-time from the office.