Senior Staff Engineer
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- Architect, design, and develop distributed, scalable, secure, and intuitive cloud-based infrastructure services that enable enterprise workloads.
- Lead enhancements to existing services, driving improvements that ensure seamless adoption and deliver a superior customer experience.
- Collaborate with Product Management and Engineering Support teams to translate customer requirements into clear technical specifications and ensure accurate alignment with business goals.
- Develop deep expertise across multiple areas of the Nutanix backend and serve as a trusted technical leader, guiding teams through complex design and implementation challenges.
- Own the engineering lifecycle end to end, maintaining an exceptionally high quality bar across design, implementation and testing.
- Demonstrate strong attention to detail, superior verbal and written communication skills, and excellent organizational abilities to drive high-impact initiatives across the organization.
- Develop next-generation Multi-tenancy software for Nutanix Cloud Management for use in Service Provider market
- Strong background in IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS architecture design.
- Hands-on experience with VMware vCloud Director, OpenStack, Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP), or similar orchestration systems.
- Deep understanding of virtualization stacks (compute, storage, and networking).
- Expertise in cloud automation frameworks (Terraform, Ansible, CloudInit).
- Proficiency in API design, RESTful and GraphQL services, and event-driven architectures.
- Familiarity with multi-tenant isolation, RBAC, and resource quota models.
- Knowledge of SDN technologies (NSX, Open vSwitch, Calico, Cilium).
- Experience building self-service portals, catalogs, and blueprints for workload provisioning.
- Strong understanding of service catalogs, workflow engines, and approval policies.
- Proficiency in microservices architecture, container orchestration (Kubernetes), and service mesh frameworks (Istio, Linkerd).
- Expertise in distributed systems, high availability, and multi-site replication design.
- Experience with observability, telemetry, and AIOps for large-scale platforms.
- Proven ability to work across cross-functional engineering, product, and SRE teams.
- Excellent system design documentation and architecture diagramming skills.
- Strong problem-solving mindset and ability to think at platform scale.
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science or a related technical field.
- 15+ years of relevant software development experience, with a proven track record of delivering high-quality, production-grade enterprise software.
- 7+ years of experience leading software development teams, driving technical direction, mentoring engineers, and delivering complex projects at scale.
Work Arrangement
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between USD $ 182,400 and USD $ 364,800 per year.
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