Staff Engineer - Backend

Staff Engineer-DR and Backup

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart

The Opportunity

The Disaster Recovery and Backup team is responsible for building next-generation data protection and disaster recovery solutions for hybrid/multi-cloud datacenters. The data protection software platforms enables customers to protect, replicate and recover workloads in a hybrid/multi cloud environment. We are looking for passionate developers to work on scalable distributed systems. You will be contributing on design and development of scalable distributed systems covering various layers (Distributed storage layer, Control Plane and Management Plane) for both hybrid and multi cloud environments.

Your Role

• Work on next-generation disaster recovery and data protection software platform enabling customers to protect and recover Business-critical applications. 
• Design and develop a scalable, distributed system for hybrid and multi cloud environments.
• Provide technical leadership for an end-to-end high quality and performant software development and delivery. 
• Work with Product managers, architects, and other technical leads to understand requirements and develop innovative solutions. 
• Design and develop software for a converged compute + storage platform for the secondary and tertiary data.
• Develop a keen understanding of complex distributed systems, and design creative solutions for customer requirements. 
• Engage with customers, partners, and support to provide world class software and support experience to end customers.

What You’ll Bring

• Design tradeoffs in building clustered, high- performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems software.
• Bachelor's degree or Master’s degree in Computer Science or related fields with 5-8 years of relevant industry experience.
• Love of programming, ability, and passion to solve complex problems.
• Strong experience in C++ and systems programming. Python or Go would be an added bonus.
• Experience building scalable fault tolerant distributed or cloud-native systems.
• Familiarity with concepts of disaster recovery, data protection, distributed data storage, clustered, high-performance, and fault-tolerant distributed systems software.
• Experience working in an Agile/Scrum development process, including DevOps and CI/CD.
• Experience with Hadoop, MapReduce, Cassandra, Zookeeper, and other large-scale distributed systems preferred.
• Have a bias for action and be able to rapidly implement and iterate solutions to complex technical problems spanning across multiple teams and technologies. Comfortable working in a fast-moving agile environment.

About us

Founded in 2009 and headquartered in San Jose, California, Nutanix is a passionate team of 6000+ employees worldwide. Our people 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’re growing 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.

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