Senior Software Engineer - Platform

Actifio; Waltham (MA); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Actifio is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join its storage and virtualization team in Waltham, Massachusetts. In this role, you will maintain and enhance Actifio's object storage file system while designing and implementing new projects in data storage, virtualization, and replication. Candidates should have over 5 years of software development experience and strong knowledge in data protection principles.

Collaboration with cross-functional teams and solving complex systems configurations will be key to your success. The ideal candidate will possess strong object-oriented design skills and familiarity with APIs.

Qualifications

• 5+ years experience in software development.
• Strong knowledge of data protection principles and backup/restore processes.
• Familiarity with Windows file systems and APIs.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and maintain existing data protection software.
• Design and implement code for data replication and snapshot file systems.
• Respond to and resolve issues raised by QA and customers.

Skills

Data protection principles

Object-oriented design

Performance optimization

Problem-solving skills

Tools

Java

C++

C#

Hyper-V

VMware ESX

Job description

Actifio delivers copy data virtualization to hundreds of global enterprise customers and service provider partners in more than 30 countries around the world. Our Virtual Data Pipeline™ technology decouples data from infrastructure, enabling dramatic improvements in business resiliency, agility, and access to the cloud. Actifio replaces siloed data management applications with a radically simple, application-centric, SLA-driven approach that lets customers capture data from production applications, manage it more economically, and use it when and where they need to.

Job Description

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work on the storage and virtualization team, reporting to the Director of Platform Engineering. You will be challenged to think out of the box and solve complex systems configuration. Additionally you will be responsible for maintaining and enhancing Actifio's object storage file system, as well as designing and implementing new projects within the fields of data storage, virtualization and replication. You will collaborate with the team to design, implement, and create features that result in strong data consistence.

Responsibilities/Key Tasks

• Responsible for enhancing and maintaining existing data protection software and designing and implementing new projects within the fields of data storage, virtualization and replication
  
• Design and implement code for new solutions and products such as data replication, scalable application, and snapshot file systems
• Enhance and maintain existing body of code
• Respond to and promptly resolve issues and defects raised by QA and customers
• Working on new products such as data replication sub systems, and new feature within our snapshot file systems
• Collaborate with other teams on functional and implementation design, implementation and writing of tests, and will interact extensively with other software teams, QA, product management and field engineers as necessary

Qualifications

• Implementation of file systems, volume management, storage virtualization, and replication
• Strong knowledge of data protection principals, snapshot, backup/restore, and cloud based protection
• Familiar with Windows file systems, APIs, and protection of OS and applications
• Exposure to virtualization platforms, such as Hyper-V or VMWare ESX
• Strong Object Oriented design/implementation skills, with object-oriented language, such as Java, C++, or C#
• Proficient in performance optimization, code reliability, and problem solving skills
• 5+ years experience in software development, with experience in at least one software product life cycle through design, implementation, and customer deployment

Additional Information

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