Lead System Software Engineer

About This Team

The team owns theCitrix Workspace app for Linuxend-to-end including:

• Platform enablement and distribution support (RHEL Ubuntu Raspberry Pi OS thin clients/OEMs)

• Core client features protocol handling and platform integration

• Production quality performance and customer escalations

The team works closely with Product Management other Workspace client teams (Windows Mac Mobile) Support and Linux thin client partners to deliver a consistent high-quality experience.

Job Description/Responsibilities:

• Lead thedesign and developmentof complex features and components for the Linux client ensuring scalability maintainability and performance.

• Ownend-to-end delivery:requirementsclarification architecture/design implementation unit/integration testing and deployment for Linux.

• Providetechnical leadershipfor Linux development: define coding standards best practices and architectural guidelines; drive adoption across the team.

• Investigate and resolvecomplex production issues and customer escalations often involving deep debugging across multiple layers (application OS network).

• Driveperformance reliability and resource-usage improvementsacross supported Linux distributions and hardware (including ARM / Raspberry Pi).

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define design and ship features that work consistently across platforms whileleveragingLinux-specific capabilities.

• Work withLinux thin client and OEM partnersto ensure feature compatibilityoptimizebehavior in their environments and address partner-specific issues.

• Contribute to and improvebuild packaging and release workflowsfor Linux (e.g. DEB/RPM packaging dependency management distribution-specific configurations).

• Prepare and reviewtest plans and test cases; drive automation and coverage improvements for Linux-specific functionality.

• Mentor and coach other engineers throughdesign reviews code reviews and pair debugging; help grow Linuxexpertisewithin the team.

BasicQualifications

• orin Computer Science or equivalent with 8 years of overall software development experience.

• StrongproficiencyinC with solid knowledge ofC14/C17features andSTL.

• Deep experience withLinux systems programming including:

• Processes threads synchronization primitives

• Inter-process communication (IPC: sockets pipes shared memory message queues etc.)

• Signals file I/O POSIX APIs

• Good understanding ofmemory managementin nongarbage-collected environments (RAII smart pointers leaks fragmentation).

• Strongobject-oriented designskills and hands-on experience buildingdesktop or client applicationsin C on Linux.

• Solid knowledge ofmultithreadingnetwork programming (sockets) and IPC.

• Hands-on experience withLinux debugging and profiling tools such as:

• gdb core dumpsstrace perfltrace

• Memory and static analysis tools (ValgrindSonarQube sanitizers)

• Experience withAgiledevelopment (preferably Scrum)CI/CD pipelines and SDLC tools such asJenkins/TeamCityGitJIRA etc.

• Proven ability to writeclean scalable and maintainable code following establisheddesign patternsand engineering best practices.

• Comfortable leadingcode and design reviews providing technical direction and influencing architectural decisions.

• Awareness and practical usage ofgdbtracingand other runtime diagnostics on Linux.

• Knowledge ofTypeScriptor web technologies is a plus (for integration with other Workspacecomponents).

• Experience withWayland/X11 graphics stacks audio or device redirection on Linux.

• Experience withRaspberry Pi OSor other ARM-based Linux platforms.

• Experience with Linuxbuild systems and packaging(CMake/Autotools make DEB/RPM).