Note : If screened-in, you will be invited for initial rounds on 1st August 2026 (Saturday) in Gurugram.
Role : Software Principal Engineer The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics - all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.
Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Software Principal Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Bangalore/Pune.
What you'll achieve :
As a Software Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for developing sophisticated systems and software basis the customers business goals, needs and general business environment creating software solutions. We build enterprise-grade, massively scalable storage systems - clustered, high-performance, and resilient - running across Linux and BSD. Our portfolio includes a multi-petabyte S3 object store and a scale-out NAS platform.
Were a modern, scrum-based engineering org that ships with high velocity and quality, using the best tools, hardware, and practices.
You will
- Design and build next-generation AI data platform storage - mission-critical components powering our AI strategy - giving you the opportunity to tackle state-of-the-art problems in scale, performance, and reliability.
- Own problems end-to-end across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and supportability - within a cluster storage system.
- Build and harden distributed services : durability, consistency, replication, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, and lifecycle management.
- Optimize performance across computer, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD/AFA); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling and advance reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability.
- Collaborate in scrum teams; write clear design docs, PRDs, and RFCs; perform code reviews and mentor peers. Raise product quality via automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, build hygiene, and release engineering & Contribute to security & compliance (TLS, authN/Z, crypto, FIPS, STIG/NIST best practices) and secure-by-default engineering.
Essential Requirements :
- 8 - 12 years of experience in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance).
- Proficiency in at least one of Java and Python (good to have); willingness to learn across the stack.
- Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., performance, strace/dtrace/eBPF, tcpdump).
- Ability to write clean, testable code; familiarity with unit/integration/system testing and CI/CD.
- Must have experience designing subsystems, leading cross-team feature delivery, setting quality bars, improving observability and performance, and driving root-cause and reliability initiatives with clear communication, collaboration, and a bias for action.
Desirable Requirements :
- Systems & Performance Engineering : Expertise in kernel subsystems, device drivers, firmware; RDMA/verbs; SPDK/DPDK; JVM tuning and GC; async/reactive patterns; lock-free/concurrent data structures; filesystem internals (NFS/SMB, S3 object store, erasure coding); observability stacks, performance profiling at scale, and chaos/failure injection.
- Security & Cloud Platforms : Skilled in security and cryptography (FIPS/CC compliance), secure boot, TPM, HSM integrations; experienced with private and public cloud environments including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) & exposure or usage of AI tools to build code/design is big plus.
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