Mitsogoinc
Senior Engineer-Device Driver
Chennai . Posted a month ago
The role
This person will design, implement, and maintain Windows kernel-mode drivers and user-mode components. They will work with the Windows Kernel Development team to own driver components and debug low-level issues.
What you will do
- Design, implement, and maintain Windows kernel-mode drivers and user-mode components.
- Debug complex, low-level issues such as crash dumps, BSODs, race conditions, and IRQL violations using WinDbg.
- Own a driver component or feature area end-to-end.
- Build and maintain user-mode components including services, DLLs, and COM interfaces in C/C++.
- Participate in code reviews and mentor less experienced engineers.
- Contribute to technical design decisions.
- Work with QA/test to ensure driver stability and support certification processes.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to translate requirements into driver code.
Required qualifications
- 5–8 years of professional software engineering experience, with hands-on Windows Systems/Kernel Development.
- Hands-on experience building or maintaining Windows kernel-mode drivers and/or user-mode components (KMDF, WDM, WDF, UMDF, mini-filter, WFP, or similar).
- Strong C and/or C++ skills at a systems level.
- C# as a secondary language.
- Solid understanding of Windows internals (memory management, process/thread scheduling, IRQL, synchronization).
- Experience with WinDbg or equivalent kernel debugging tools.
- Comfort reading crash dumps.
- Early leadership signal such as owning a module, mentoring a teammate, or acting as a technical lead.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Information Security, Engineering, or a related discipline.
Nice to have
- experience with file-system mini-filters or WFP network drivers
- driver signing/WHQL/HLK exposure
- user-mode systems experience (Windows services, DLLs, COM)
- endpoint security related technologies
About the company
Mitsogo is a global organization. Hexnode, the Enterprise software division of Mitsogo Inc., was founded with a mission to simplify the way people work.