As a Principal Software Engineer - Protocols, you will play a key role in enhancing our cloud-scale NAS platform.
Your responsibilities will include:
- Participate and lead requirements analysis, architecture design, design reviews, and other work related to expanding Nasuni's Platform, Protocols, and Operating System.
- Developing and maintaining software and services that power our NAS appliance, delivering high performance and reliability to customers.
- Building and enhancing High Availability (HA) and Upgrade mechanisms to ensure seamless, non-disruptive customer experiences.
- Investigating and resolving bugs and defects reported by QA, customer support, and the development team.
Required Skills and Experience
- 11+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems or cloud-based services.
- Proven expertise in C and C++ programming, with a strong focus on performance and reliability.
- Solid understanding of Linux clustering technologies such as Pacemaker, Corosync, etc.
- Proficient in object-oriented design and SDK development in both on-premises and cloud environments.
- Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded systems, I/O subsystems, and Linux internals including XFS/EXT filesystems.
- Strong grasp of operating systems, distributed systems architecture, and cloud service fundamentals.
- Experience working with hypervisor platforms such as ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, or OpenStack.
- Ability to work with technical partners to translate ambiguous requirements into well-defined, actionable designs and component-level specifications.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly present complex technical topics to diverse audiences.
- Ability to lead technical implementation efforts, including rapid prototyping and delivery of proof-of-concept solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to collaborate and support team members, contributing to team knowledge around tools, technologies, and development best practices.
- The Storage Network Protocols we use include; NFS, SMB, CIFS, and SAMBA.