Software Engineer 2 - CDP

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

The Opportunity

As a Software Engineer in CDP team at Nutanix, you will play a crucial role in designing and developing reliable, efficient, and high-performance data-path software for large-scale enterprise and hybrid cloud environments. Your work will involve understanding complex distributed systems and solving customer requirements by designing innovative solutions. You will also focus on performance, scaling out, and resiliency of distributed storage systems. Working closely with various teams, you will contribute to delivering high-quality products in a fast-paced environment. The role also offers the opportunity to engage with customers and support them in resolving production issues. This position supports Nutanix's mission by maintaining the quality of the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF), which is essential for enabling hyper-convergence and hybrid cloud solutions. What makes this role particularly interesting and unique is the chance to design and develop software for next-generation features on the distributed HCI platform and contribute to the transition to hybrid cloud. Additionally, you will have the opportunity to address technical debt and drive aggressive performance goals for the platform, while ensuring prompt resolution of customer issues by collaborating with support and SRE teams.

Engineering / R&D at Nutanix

The CDP team was the first team created at Nutanix. The team is responsible for the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) - a high-performance shared-nothing distributed file system. The Stargate team is the "data-engine" of the distributed file system, responsible for handling all the IO requests, placing data, dedupe, compression and encryption, healing from failures, etc. The work for the Stargate team is challenging because designing an enterprise-grade distributed file system means that we have strict requirements of consistency and performance, and we always have to reinvent ourselves as newer and faster drive technologies emerge.

The team's primary technology stack

• C++
• Go
• Python

Your Role

• Design and develop reliable, efficient, high-performance data-path software for large-scale enterprise and hybrid cloud.
• Develop an understanding of complex distributed systems and design innovative solutions for customer requirements.
• Work on performance, scaling out, and resiliency of distributed storage systems.
• Work alongside 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

• Completion of a bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related Engineering field is required.
• Familiarity with OS internals, distributed systems and good practices for design/implementation.
• Hungry and humble attitude with a keen sense of working as part of a dynamic team.

About the Team

Meet Kiran

• Joined Nutanix in 2014 as one of the handful core data path engineers at the time. I was new to the complete storage realm but was fortunate enough to work across the entire stack. Led the development of key features across the core data path and Disaster recovery.
• About 17 years of experience in designing and developing systems.
• Engineering-focused problem solver who enjoys working and learning with fellow engineers.
• Husband and father of one boy.
• Hoping to find someone passionate about technology, with a positive attitude and a confident approach to challenges, a great collaborator and team player, with a deep appreciation for design and simplicity.

What The Team Says

• "CDP team is a team where you find smart and humble engineers who work on some of the most interesting storage problems"
• "Nutanix is a great place to collaborate with intellectual peers. We strive to challenge our curiosity by constantly learning."

How We Work

• As a global team, we work in various regions worldwide and function asynchronously as much as possible. Every engineer is given full autonomy and responsibility to work on features while collaborating with other stakeholders. As we work on some of the industry-leading solutions, we are focused on learning and leading the way when it comes to infrastructure solutions for hybrid cloud. We mostly focus on getting our customers the most ROI and strive to be the best HCI solution out there in the world, be it from a performance or savings perspective.

Pay Range

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $ 92800 and USD $ 184800 per year.

However, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment.

If hired, employee will be in an "at-will position" and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.