Principal Engineer - Data path - Object Storage product development

J ob Family Definition:

Designs, develops, troubleshoots and debugs software programs for software enhancements and new products. Develops software including operating systems, compilers, routers, networks, utilities, databases and Internet-related tools. Determines hardware compatibility and/or influences hardware design.

Management Level Definition:

Contributions have visible technical impact on a product or major subcomponent. Applies in-depth professional knowledge and innovative ideas to solve complex problems. Visible contributions improve time-to-market, achieve cost reductions, or satisfy current and future unmet customer needs. Recognized internal authority on key technology area applying innovative principles and ideas. Provides technical leadership for significant project/program work. Leads or participates in cross-functional initiatives and contributes to mentorship and knowledge sharing across the organization.

What you ll do:

• Develops organization-wide architectures and methodologies for software systems design and development across multiple platforms and organizations within the Global Business Unit.
• End-to-End Ownership and Technical Leadership
• Identifies and evaluates new technologies, innovations, and outsourced development partner relationships for alignment with technology roadmap and business value; creates plans for integration and update into architecture.
• Anticipate bottlenecks and architect innovative solutions
• Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk.
• Drive best practices and operational excellence both at the team and organizational level
• Coach and mentor junior and mid-level developers to help them grow technically and understand best practices
• Leverages recognized domain expertise, business acumen, and experience to influence decisions of executive business leadership, outsourced development partners, and industry standards groups.
• Provides guidance and mentoring to less- experienced staff members to set an example of software systems design and development innovation and excellence.
• Excellent communication skills

What you need to bring:

Education and Experience Required:

• Bachelors or masters degree in computer science, Information Systems, or equivalent.
• 10+ years of experience in a product development environment on storage/system engineering
• Track record of delivering V1 products (or early-stage product development) in modern storage technologies (Object/File storage for modern AI use-cases, Object storage, cloud storage)
• A track record of establishing and assuring adherence to performance requirements, work plans, and schedules for significant engineering initiatives

Knowledge and Skills:

• Experience designing and developing software systems design tools and languages.
• Experience in storage product development either file, block or object storage.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Experience in overall architecture of software systems for products and solutions.
• Designing and integrating software systems running on multiple platform types into overall architecture.
• Evaluating and selecting forms and processes for software systems testing and methodology, including writing and execution of test plans, debugging, and testing scripts and tools.
• History of innovation with multiple patents or deployed solutions in the field of software design.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; mastery in English and local language.
• Ability to effectively communicate product architectures, design proposals and negotiate options at business unit and executive levels.
• Must have very strong system programming background with C/C++ for large enterprise class software.
• Must have proficiency with data structures, algorithms and multi-threaded programming
• Must have in depth knowledge of OS internals.
• Must be capable of debugging issues in multi-threaded and clustered environments.
• Prior experience in one or more of the following areas is a huge plus:
  • Data-path on large and complex modules.
  • Distributed Systems, Clustering or HA
  • Memory& Space management, Virtualization or De-duplication
  • Replication, QoS , Storage Protocols (iSCSI/SCSI, FC, NFS, CIFS).
  • Performance tuning and modeling
  • Large Objects and Multi-part upload design/code complexities
• Use of Performance analysis tools e.g. Oprofile, gprof.