Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

 

The Opportunity

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud, is looking to hire a SDE/ MTS for 
Pithos team.  Nutanix welcomes builders, those who are unafraid to take on 
hard challenges and learn new technologies.
Pithos is a proprietary distributed transactional NoSQL database developed 
in-house using C++. It is engineered for maximum efficiency, offering 
lightweight, low-latency, and high-throughput performance. The database 
features fault tolerance, notifications, cross-cluster replication, r-indexes, 
and configuration management. As part of the Pithos team, you will 
contribute to developing features for Nutanix's back-end services, internal 
metadata store, and control plane services. Your role will involve optimizing 
query and storage layer performance, as well as in-memory data workflows, 
with a particular focus on CPU and memory analysis. You will work closely. 
with QA teams to review and create test plans, and lead efforts in 
automation and benchmarking for various features. Additionally, you will 
regularly interact with client teams to understand their workflows and data 
modeling needs, and feature requests, and will manage critical on-call 
responsibilities.

 

About the Team

At Nutanix, you will have the opportunity to be part of the NTNX metadata 
db team, consisting of 40 high-performing individuals spread across 
locations in the US and India. The team culture at metadata db is one of 
collaboration, innovation, and excellence, where every team member's 
contribution is valued and acknowledged. Working within this dynamic 
team, you will have the chance to learn from some of the best minds in the 
industry and work on cutting-edge projects that push the boundaries of 
technology.
You will report to the Technical Manager and work in an on-site setup, 
where you will be required to be present in the office at least four days a 
week. This arrangement fosters a sense of camaraderie and allows for more 
seamless collaboration among team members, leading to increased 
productivity and creativity. Additionally, being in the office most of the week

offers the chance to engage face-to-face with colleagues, enabling better 
communication and relationship building within the team.

 

Your Role

• Contribute to the overall architecture, design and implementation of 
  next generation distributed database layer.
• Design a scalable config and time series database on top of 
  distributed NoSQL database solutions.
• Architect, design and implement query and data model for our 
  database.
• Develop a deep understanding of complex distributed systems, and 
  design innovative solutions for customer requirements.
• Work on performance, scaling out and resiliency of distributed storage
  systems.
• Work closely with development, test, documentation and product 
  management teams to deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced 
  environment.
• Engage with customers and support when needed to solve production 
  issues.

 

What You Will Bring

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems preferred.
• Love of programming and rock-solid in one or more languages: C, C+
  +, Java, Python ideally for enterprise-quality software.
• Development experience in database back-ends, distributed systems 
  management, Cloud technologies.
• Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data 
  management, and design/implementation tradeoffs in building 
  clustered, high- performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems 
  software.
• Extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux.

 

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 2 - 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.

 

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