Staff Engineer - QA Automation [ 14 - 17 years exp]

Nutanix · Bengaluru · Posted 2026-07-18

Tech stack: AWS, Azure, GCP, Linux, Python

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About the role

Nutanix has disrupted the multi-billion-dollar virtualization market by pioneering the first converged compute & storage virtualization appliance that can incrementally scale out to manage petabytes of data while running tens of thousands of virtual machines. We strive to bring simplicity in data center management and constantly challenge ourselves to make complex systems simple. We are now onto our next leg of making hybrid multi-cloud infinitely simple and cost effective.

Responsibilities:
- Be a self-starter who can flourish in a fast-paced technology company.
- Play the role of a technical leader and mentor.
- Design and Architect solutions and alternatives. Drive consensus and decision-making.
- Take technical ownership of certain projects in an individual capacity and reviewers in others.
- Inculcate best practices within the team with regards to design, coding standards, testing and automation to constantly improve on developer productivity.
- Ensure quality standards of the deliverables with regards to user experience, scale, resiliency, and reliability
- Participate in project planning with Engineering and Program Managers to set aggressive but achievable milestones and goals.
- Discuss requirements with Product team and elicit responses for Non Functional Requirements
- Participate in product roadmap discussions and customer interaction.
- Write white-papers and blogs, file patents, represent Nutanix in external seminars.

Qualifications:
- Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, web scale systems and proven ability in having built clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed applications or systems software.
- Strong experience in building and managing web scale applications.
- Experience in one of following programming languages: Python
- Strong experience in Linux
- Working experience working with storage, networking, virtualization (Nutanix, VMWare, KVM) and/or cloud technologies – (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with QA Tools ( Selenium and/or similar technologies)

Qualifications

- Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, web scale systems and proven ability in having built clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed applications or systems software.
- Strong experience in building and managing web scale applications.
- Experience in one of following programming languages: Python
- Strong experience in Linux
- Working experience working with storage, networking, virtualization (Nutanix, VMWare, KVM) and/or cloud technologies – (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Experience with QA Tools ( Selenium and/or similar technologies)

Responsibilities

- Be a self-starter who can flourish in a fast-paced technology company.
- Play the role of a technical leader and mentor.
- Design and Architect solutions and alternatives.
- Drive consensus and decision-making.
- Take technical ownership of certain projects in an individual capacity and reviewers in others.
- Inculcate best practices within the team with regards to design, coding standards, testing and automation to constantly improve on developer productivity.
- Ensure quality standards of the deliverables with regards to user experience, scale, resiliency, and reliability
- Participate in project planning with Engineering and Program Managers to set aggressive but achievable milestones and goals.
- Discuss requirements with Product team and elicit responses for Non Functional Requirements
- Participate in product roadmap discussions and customer interaction.
- Write white-papers and blogs, file patents, represent Nutanix in external seminars.

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