Senior Software Engineer in Test - Core Data Path

Senior Software Engineer - Core Data Path - San Jose, CA

The Opportunity - 

This role is a crucial role for maintaining the quality of the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) - a high-performance shared-nothing distributed filesystem. This storage stack is the foundational piece to enable hyper-convergence and hybrid cloud solutions. The software defined storage helps us power infrastructure for all kinds of applications on all kinds of platforms. That coupled with a simplicity focused design makes the engineering problem both profound and rewarding. The engineer will take responsibility for end to end quality and work with a team with a deep understanding of systems internals and distributed filesystems.

Your Role:

• Architect, design, and develop test strategies and plan for features developed in Nutanix Distributed filesystem.
• Develop an understanding of complex distributed systems and design innovative solutions for customer requirements.
• Work on performance, scaling out, and resiliency of distributed storage systems.
• Work alongside development, test, documentation, and product management teams to deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
• Engage with customers and support when needed to solve production issues.
• Work closely with the product management team to understand user needs and investigate customer use cases for the Nutanix Distributed filesystem software (Core Data Path) features on Cloud instances.
• Design test strategies, develop test cases based on different customer use cases, and work closely with developers to understand the Nutanix product features.
• Work on the maintenance and execution of the test cases from the JITA (internal continuous build server).
• Automate test cases for scalability testing.
• Build telemetry or validators which can identify bottlenecks in the stack quicker.
• Execute automated and manual tests during product testing phases to fix all bugs in assigned area(s), including extending the existing framework and adding new core libraries to test the new features introduced by Nutanix; and automating the test cases to test the storage stack.
• Perform regression testing, document the newly-identified test scenarios, and perform exploratory testing to identify further bugs.
• Work closely with the Development Team to detect and analyze the root of each failure.
• File defects and track them to closure.

What you'll bring:

• Experience in software testing (test case development, unit tests, test automation frameworks, test tools);
• Experience in testing one of the following: file systems, storage systems, databases, operating systems, networking; systems administration
• Experience in Unix or Linux.
• Proficiency in object oriented languages like Python,Java,Golang.
• Preferred Experience in Distributed systems, virtualization
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks  
• Excellent knowledge in Networked Storage Systems or related fields with at least 6 years experience.
• Academic introduction to concepts like Database management systems, Operating System and Computer Algorithm

 

 

About Your Team

The Core Data Path (CDP) team was the first team created at Nutanix. It is the team responsible for the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) - a high-performance shared-nothing distributed filesystem. The Core Data Path team is the "data-engine" of the distributed filesystem, which is responsible for handling all the IO requests, placing data, handling dedupe, compression and encryption, healing from failures, etc. The work for the Core Data Path team is challenging because designing an enterprise-grade distributed filesystem means that we have strict requirements of consistency and performance, and we always have to reinvent ourselves as newer and faster drive technologies emerge.

Team’s primary technology stack

• C/C++
• Go Lang
• Python
• Java

Meet Pratap

• Joined Nutanix in 2016 to lead the global team responsible for quality of all the Core Data Path features
• About 20 years of experience in quality and performance of infrastructure solutions and tools development
• Engineering focused problem solver who enjoys working and learning with fellow engineers.
• Husband and father of one boy.
• Hoping to find someone passionate about technology, with a positive attitude and a confident approach to challenges, a great collaborator and team player, with a deep appreciation of quality.

What the Team Says

• “CDP team is a team where you find smart and humble engineers who work of some of the most interesting storage problems”
• “Nutanix is a great place to collaborate with intellectual peers. We strive to challenge our curiosity by constantly learning.”

How We Work

As a global team, we work in various regions worldwide and function asynchronously as much as possible. Every engineer is given full autonomy and responsibility to work on features while collaborating with other stakeholders. As we work on some of the industry leading solutions, we are focused on learning and leading the way when it comes to infrastructure solutions for hybrid cloud. There is also a very high emphasis on automation for every feature we develop so we keep working on innovative methods to test the stack in an automated fashion reliably. We actively participate,leverage and contribute to open source projects whenever possible.

About us

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is a passionate team of 6000+ employees worldwide. Our people (we call ourselves “Nutants”) are the heartbeat of #LifeAtNutanix and one of the many things that makes Nutanix a great place to work at. We share an intellectual curiosity, a bias for action, and an obsession for our customers. We are builders and problem solvers with an entrepreneurial spirit. Above all, we celebrate what makes each of us unique. 

We are humbled to be recognized as one of Bloomberg’s Top 50 Companies to Watch in 2020 and one of the Fortune 100 Best Companies to Work For® 2020. 

We’re growing fast and disrupting the computing industry. Join us and make your mark.

 

About our business

Nutanix is a global leader in cloud software and a pioneer in hyperconverged infrastructure solutions, making computing invisible anywhere. Companies around the world use Nutanix software to leverage a single platform to manage any app, at any location, at any scale for their private, hybrid and multi-cloud environments.

 

We’re 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 CandidateAccommodationRequests@nutanix.com.

The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $134,400 and $267,600 a year; however, base pay offered may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. 

 

If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company reserves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
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