Member of Technical Staff - 2 (C++/Python/Go, System programming, DR & Backup)
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
Nutanix engineers are crafting revolutionary technology, building the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS. We're using our love of programming and diverse backgrounds to deliver the simplicity and agility of popular public cloud services, but with the security and control that you need in a private cloud. At Nutanix, you'll find no shortage of challenging problems to work on. We work closely with our product in a collegiate, collaborative environment that encourages the open exploration of ideas.
Engineering / R&D at Nutanix
Nutanix software is deployed on hundreds of thousands of clusters across the world. The Nutanix clusters run several critical applications for customers. Our team is responsible for providing disaster recovery (DR) capability for the applications running on the clusters. This includes advanced, high performance data replication capabilities to meet the RPO (recovery point objective) and RTO (recovery time objective) requirements of the applications. The use cases cover on-premises (private cloud), hybrid cloud and multi-cloud scenarios.
Your Role
- Design and develop software for a converged computing + storage platform for the software defined data center.
- Develop a deep understanding of complex distributed systems, and design innovative solutions for customer requirements.
- Improve performance, scale-out and resiliency of distributed storage systems.
- Work closely with other development teams, testers, documentation writers and product management 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
- Love of programming and rock-solid in one or more languages: C, C++, Java, Python, ideally for enterprise-quality software
- Deep understanding of UNIX/Linux internals.
- Development experience in file systems, operating systems, database back-ends, distributed systems management, Cloud technologies is plus.
- Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, Cassandra, Zookeeper and other large-scale distributed systems preferred.
- Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, and design/implementation trade-offs in building clustered, high- performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems software.
- Experience working with virtualization technologies like VMware, Hyper-V, Xen. VMware preferred.
- Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualization and/or storage management
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is required. Advanced degree in related field preferred
- Very strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Can-do attitude while solving difficult problems spanning across multiple teams.
- Comfortable working in a fast-moving agile environment
- 2-3 years of exp
About the Team
About Your Manager:
- Your manager for this role will be Senior Technical Manager. A senior engineer with 10+ years of industry experience in distributed systems, storage, operating systems fundamentals built on top of Masters degree from Carnegie Mellon University. Have led several projects from inception and currently lead and manage the metro availability team in DR delivering business continuity to users with critical workloads.
What The Team Says:
- The team has a good blend of junior and senior engineers who are hungry for ownership and delivering projects end to end. The leadership style is a mix of coaching and democratic to foster a culture of innovation and accountability
How We Work:
- We work in Hybrid - 2 days per week on prem is mandatory.
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