Staff Engineer - Backend Development [ 12 - 15 years, Architect, Distributed Systems ]

Nutanix, Inc.; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 6,500,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutanix Cloud Manager is seeking a senior technical leader with 12+ years of experience to design, architect and own complex distributed systems. You will mentor teams, drive architecture decisions, and collaborate with Product to deliver scalable, fault-tolerant web-scale applications that power enterprise workloads.

This hybrid role based in Bangalore offers opportunities to influence product roadmaps, participate in customer interactions, and advance best practices in coding, testing and

Qualifications

• BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 12+ years of experience in software or systems leadership.
• Proven hands-on technical management in a high-growth environment.

Responsibilities

• Design and Architect solutions and alternatives. Drive consensus and decision making.
• Take technical ownership of certain projects in 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.

Skills

OS internals

Distributed data management

Web-scale applications

GoLang

C/C++/Java/Python

Linux

Cloud platforms

AWS/Azure/GCP

Databases

Messaging systems

Education

BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Job description

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

The Opportunity

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.

About Team

At Nutanix Cloud Manager, we are trying to build the next generation platform to help enterprises model, develop and manage applications. We want to give them the ability to encapsulate not only infrastructure but even the application - its architecture and deployment "as code". Our goal is to enable IT to

• Optimize capacity, proactively detect performance anomalies, and automate operational tasks
• Streamline management, deployment, and scale applications with self-service and centralized role-based IT governance.
• Drive financial accountability and unify security operations with intelligent analysis and regulatory compliance.

Your Role

• 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 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.

What will you bring

• 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: GoLang/C/C++/Java/ Python
• Strong experience in Linux
• Working experience working with storage, networking, virtualization (Nutanix, VMWare, KVM) and/or cloud technologies - (AWS, Azure, GCP)
• Experience with database (SQL, Document-based) and messaging technologies (NATS, Kafka, Pulsar)

Qualifications and Experience

BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering

12+ Years of experience

Proven hands-on technical management

Experience working in a high growth multinational company environment.

Work Arrangement

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. In locations where our workplace policy applies (i.e. San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), employees are expected to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week to foster collaboration, team alignment, and access to in-office resources. Workplace type may vary based on location and team requirements. Please speak with your recruiter for details. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.