Senior Member of Technical Staff

Nutanix · Pune · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: C++

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About the role

This is a key engineering role in the Core Data Path (CDP) team, which maintains and evolves the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) - the foundational storage layer that powers Nutanix hyperconverged and hybrid cloud infrastructure.
As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will work on Stargate, the data engine of NDSF. Stargate handles IO requests, data placement, dedupe, compression, encryption, resiliency, and healing from failures. The work sits close to the core of the product and directly impacts performance, reliability, scale, and customer experience.
We are looking for engineers who combine strong systems fundamentals with ownership, sound design judgment, and the ability to deliver high-quality enterprise software in a complex distributed system.

Responsibilities:
- Design, implement, and deliver reliable, efficient, high-performance software for large-scale enterprise and hybrid cloud storage systems.
- Own medium-to-large feature areas end to end, from problem definition and design through implementation, validation, performance analysis, rollout, and production support.
- Develop a deep understanding of NDSF internals and use that context to build simple, robust solutions for customer and product requirements.
- Work on performance, scale-out behavior, availability, resiliency, and failure handling in a distributed storage architecture.
- Debug complex production and test issues across distributed components, using data, logs, metrics, and strong systems reasoning.
- Collaborate closely with development, test, documentation, support, product management, and customer-facing teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging guidance, and clear technical communication.

Qualifications:
- Strong OS, systems programming, and distributed systems fundamentals, with the ability to apply them to practical design and implementation tradeoffs.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise-quality software, preferably in C++ or another low-level systems language.
- Proven ability to own non-trivial features or components in a production software system.
- Good debugging skills for concurrency, performance, memory, correctness, and failure scenarios.
- Ability to reason from first principles, break ambiguous problems into actionable pieces, and communicate design choices clearly.
- A customer-first mindset and willingness to engage on production issues when engineering help is needed.

Qualifications

- Strong OS, systems programming, and distributed systems fundamentals, with the ability to apply them to practical design and implementation tradeoffs.
- Hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise-quality software, preferably in C++ or another low-level systems language.
- Proven ability to own non-trivial features or components in a production software system.
- Good debugging skills for concurrency, performance, memory, correctness, and failure scenarios.
- Ability to reason from first principles, break ambiguous problems into actionable pieces, and communicate design choices clearly.
- A customer-first mindset and willingness to engage on production issues when engineering help is needed.

Responsibilities

- Design, implement, and deliver reliable, efficient, high-performance software for large-scale enterprise and hybrid cloud storage systems.
- Own medium-to-large feature areas end to end, from problem definition and design through implementation, validation, performance analysis, rollout, and production support.
- Develop a deep understanding of NDSF internals and use that context to build simple, robust solutions for customer and product requirements.
- Work on performance, scale-out behavior, availability, resiliency, and failure handling in a distributed storage architecture.
- Debug complex production and test issues across distributed components, using data, logs, metrics, and strong systems reasoning.
- Collaborate closely with development, test, documentation, support, product management, and customer-facing teams to deliver high-quality outcomes.
- Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging guidance, and clear technical communication.

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