Senior C/C++ Linux Tech Lead — Enterprise Systems

DXC Technology Morocco; United States; Remote; USD 84,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Wellness program

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Retirement plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

DXC Technology is seeking a Senior C Linux Application and Systems Technical Lead to guide a critical enterprise modernization effort. You’ll own stabilizing large C/C++ codebases, drive design decisions, and mentor teams across Linux environments and cloud readiness.

You will act as a senior escalation point, resolving runtime, memory, and performance issues while reducing technical debt and improving system quality. This role emphasizes operational excellence and knowledge transfer.

Qualifications

• Strong hands-on C/C++ and legacy enterprise application expertise (preferably Mainframe migrations).
• Ability to understand and troubleshoot large, mature, highly interconnected C codebases.
• Strong code-review / PR-review capability with authority to challenge design and implementation.
• Experience diagnosing complex runtime, memory, threading, compiler-warning, and application behavior issues.
• Strong Linux troubleshooting, including application/services/log analysis.
• Experience with connectors, interfaces, communication layers, and distributed system troubleshooting.
• Ability to perform deep root-cause analysis across application code, services, logs and transaction flows.
• Experience providing technical governance for builds/releases, including assessment of code changes before merge/release.
• Able to lead technical-debt, code-quality and stability remediation, not just new feature development.

Responsibilities

• Troubleshoot and resolve issues within large, mature, and highly interconnected C/C++ codebases.
• Lead code-review and PR-review processes with the authority to challenge design and implementation decisions.
• Diagnose complex runtime, memory, threading, compiler-warning, and application behavior issues.
• Perform deep root-cause analysis across application code, services, logs, and transaction flows.
• Conduct Linux troubleshooting including application, services, and log analysis.
• Troubleshoot connectors, interfaces, communication layers, and distributed systems.
• Provide technical governance for builds and releases, including assessment of code changes prior to merge/release.
• Lead technical-debt remediation and code-quality/stability improvement initiatives.
• Function as a senior technical escalation point, coordinating developers and SME to reach decisions.
• Develop and maintain documentation to support knowledge transfer, operational readiness, and system troubleshooting.

Skills

C/C++

Mainframe migration experience

Linux troubleshooting

Code-review leadership

Root-cause analysis

Documentation and knowledge transfer

Debugging memory/ threading issues

Job description

DXC Technology is seeking a Senior C Linux Application and Systems Technical Lead to guide a critical enterprise modernization effort. You’ll own stabilizing large C/C++ codebases, drive design decisions, and mentor teams across Linux environments and cloud readiness.

You will act as a senior escalation point, resolving runtime, memory, and performance issues while reducing technical debt and improving system quality. This role emphasizes operational excellence and knowledge transfer.