Title:  Sr. Software Engineer (Systems Engineering, C/C++)

Job Summary

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and development of scalable, resilient, and high-performance infrastructure components across storage, networking, virtualization, and Linux systems layers. 
• Drive architecture and technical direction for major subsystems within software-defined storage, virtualization infrastructure, and distributed cloud platforms. 
• Contribute to significant portions of the product across multiple technical domains and projects while coordinating execution across stakeholders and partner teams. 
• Architect and optimize storage and networking data paths for performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency in cloud-scale environments. 
• Provide technical leadership across virtualization technologies including KVM/QEMU, hypervisor integrations, virtual networking, storage virtualization, and infrastructure orchestration. 
• Drive engineering excellence through strong design practices, observability, scalability, reliability, automation, and operational readiness. 
• Lead resolution of highly complex technical challenges involving distributed systems, virtualization, cloud infrastructure, and enterprise storage technologies. 
• Influence technical direction across organizations through architecture reviews, technical mentoring, design leadership, and cross-functional collaboration. 
• Establish effective technical collaboration models across engineering teams and partner organizations to drive alignment and execution. 
• Mentor engineers and help scale organizational engineering capability through technical guidance and leadership. 
• Evaluate emerging technologies and industry trends in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, storage, and virtualization platforms. 

Job Requirements

• 12+ years of experience in systems software engineering, distributed infrastructure platforms, virtualization, storage systems, or cloud infrastructure development. 
• Expert-level programming skills in C/C++ with strong proficiency in Python. 
• Deep expertise in Linux operating systems internals, kernel technologies, systems architecture, concurrency, memory management, and performance engineering. 
• Significant experience designing and building distributed storage systems, software-defined infrastructure platforms, or cloud-native infrastructure services. 
• Deep expertise with virtualization stacks including KVM/QEMU, virtio, hypervisors, virtual storage, and virtual networking technologies. 
• Strong experience with storage and networking subsystems, kernel development, or device driver development.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems architecture, scalability, fault tolerance, reliability engineering, and operational excellence. 
• Strong operational expertise with hyperscaler cloud platforms including AWS, Azure, GCP, or OCI. 
• Proven ability to lead large cross-functional technical initiatives and influence engineering outcomes across organizations. 
• Exceptional debugging, systems analysis, and performance optimization capabilities. 
• Strong communication, technical leadership, and stakeholder management skills. 
• Demonstrated ability to independently solve highly complex technical challenges with broad organizational impact. 

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience architecting enterprise-scale storage operating systems such as ONTAP or similar platforms. 
• Experience driving large-scale infrastructure modernization or platform transformation initiatives. 
• Contributions to open-source systems software, kernel, virtualization, storage, or cloud infrastructure ecosystems. 
• Recognized technical expertise in cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, virtualization, or storage platforms. 
• Advanced cloud certifications or equivalent industry-recognized expertise. 

Education

• Bachelors or Masters Degree in computer scicnece or similar field is preferred.