Staff Engineer - Dev

Nutanix; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 4,000,000 - 7,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Nutanix is seeking a Staff Engineer - Backend Development in Bengaluru for 12-15 years of experience to lead design and implementation of scalable backend services. You will own critical components, drive architectural decisions, and mentor junior engineers in a fast-paced hybrid-cloud environment.

The role emphasizes technical ownership, high performance, reliability, and collaboration with product and operations teams to deliver robust, scalable software for multi-cloud workloads.

Qualifications

• BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering.
• 15+ years of experience in backend engineering or technical leadership.
• Hands-on experience with large-scale distributed systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and architect scalable backend solutions.
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship to engineers.
• Own projects end-to-end and drive quality, testing, and performance.
• Collaborate with product, ops, and security teams on roadmaps.

Skills

Go/C/C++/Java/Python

Linux

Distributed systems

Web-scale apps

Storage virtualization

Education

BS/MS in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

NATS

Kafka

Pulsar

AWS/GCP/Azure

Job description

Staff Engineer - Backend Development [ 12 - 15 years ]

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

15+ 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.

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Nutanix is an equal opportunity employer.

Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an AffIrMative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting [e-mail] .