About This Team 

The team owns the Citrix Workspace app for Linux end-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 the design and development of complex features and components for the Linux client, ensuring scalability, maintainability, and performance. 

• Own end-to-end delivery: requirements clarification, architecture/design, implementation, unit/integration testing, and deployment for Linux. 

• Provide technical leadership for Linux development: define coding standards, best practices, and architectural guidelines; drive adoption across the team. 

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

• Drive performance, reliability, and resource-usage improvements across 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, while leveraging Linux-specific capabilities. 

• Work with Linux thin client and OEM partners to ensure feature compatibility, optimize behavior in their environments, and address partner-specific issues. 

• Contribute to and improve build, packaging, and release workflows for Linux (e.g., DEB/RPM packaging, dependency management, distribution-specific configurations). 

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

• Mentor and coach other engineers through design reviews, code reviews, and pair debugging; help grow Linux expertise within the team. 

Basic Qualifications 

• B.Tech or M.Tech in Computer Science or equivalent with 8+ years of overall software development experience.

• Strong proficiency in C++, with solid knowledge of C++14/C++17 features and STL. 

• Deep experience with Linux 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 of memory management in non–garbage-collected environments (RAII, smart pointers, leaks, fragmentation). 

• Strong object-oriented design skills and hands-on experience building desktop or client applications in C++ on Linux. 

• Solid knowledge of multithreading, network programming (sockets), and IPC. 

• Hands-on experience with Linux debugging and profiling tools, such as: 

• gdb, core dumps, strace, perf, ltrace 

• Memory and static analysis tools (Valgrind, SonarQube, sanitizers) 

• Experience with Agile development (preferably Scrum), CI/CD pipelines, and SDLC tools such as Jenkins/TeamCity, Git, JIRA, etc. 

• Proven ability to write clean, scalable, and maintainable code, following established design patterns and engineering best practices. 

• Comfortable leading code and design reviews, providing technical direction, and influencing architectural decisions. 

• Awareness and practical usage of gdb tracing and other runtime diagnostics on Linux. 

• Knowledge of TypeScript or web technologies is a plus (for integration with other Workspace components). 

• Experience with Wayland/X11, graphics stacks, audio, or device redirection on Linux. 

• Experience with Raspberry Pi OS or other ARM-based Linux platforms. 

• Experience with Linux build systems and packaging (CMake/Autotools, make, DEB/RPM).