Member of Technical Staff - 4 

The opportunity

We are looking for experienced Software Engineers, who are excited to be one of the first people in the new team, building modern Cloud technology and shaping the future of the product. In the Nutanix DB Team, we will be tackling the most challenging problems in Database Engine and Service layers that will utilize the full power of Private and Public Clouds (Nutanix Cloud, AWS, Azure, etc.). 

Nutanix Database Service

Nutanix Database Service was launched 3 years ago, and since its beginnings we have seen a tremendous customer response. Now, we are entering the next stage of Nutanix DB evolution, with expansion to a full multi-Cloud and Hybrid offering that supports multiple Database Engines. We started the Nutanix Database team in Serbia in April 2022. The team attracted several senior technical experts with cloud service and database kernel experience from different companies, together with a group of super talented young engineers. The team is now delivering on the first Nutanix DB Serbia milestones!

Your role

• Take part in architecting, designing, and building core components of the Nutanix Database Service;
• Experience multi-Cloud development with Nutanix Cloud, AWS, Azure, etc;
• Build a system that can operate thousands of hosted instances for multiple DB kernels: PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, and others;
• Use the power of the Open Source to build a system that scales and spans across different clouds and geographies;

What will you bring

• 2-5 years of experience in building distributed systems and services;
• Technical leadership and passion for programming and a rock-solid coding foundation;
• Ability to solve problems related to distributed systems, concurrency, and performance engineering;
• Passion for system design;
• Experience in engineering fundamentals and software design best practices;

Great to have

• Experience in a tech lead role and mentoring junior team members;
• Experience in building a scalable cloud service on one of the leading public clouds: AWS, Azure, GCP, etc.
• Experience in either PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server, Oracle, or other Database Engine development;
• Experience in system design and cloud architecture;
• Experience in Open Source project code development;
• Experience in bootstrapping a startup project;

Meet the hiring manager!

Nutanix DB team in Serbia is led by our Senior Director of Engineering, Jovan Ćukalović, who joined in April 2022 after 10+ years in Microsoft, where he was working on SQL Server on Azure as one the leaders of the Microsoft SQL team in Serbia: 

“I was inspired by the Nutanix Database Service story and the opportunity to build a team working on multiple clouds and multiple database engines.”

Biggest professional win: “Building a team from scratch and driving execution of SQL Managed Instance was the single biggest challenge in my career. I had a chance to work with the most talented and passionate young engineers, and witness an evolution of both product and team around me.”

Biggest personal win: “Over the years of hard work and challenges, I managed to keep my family and personal wellbeing at the top of my priority list.”

Message for our candidates: “We are looking for people who want to grow their system design skills and be the first ones to witness creation of our multi-cloud hybrid Database Service!”