Principal Storage Software Engineer

Overview

Principal Storage Software Engineer to architect, design and build scalable Block, File and Object storage platforms and database-aware storage running in Kubernetes environments, and to lead technical direction for the storage platform.

What you'll do

• Architect and develop highly scalable block, file, and object storage systems.
• Build database-aware storage optimized for PostgreSQL, relational databases, distributed databases, and other stateful workloads.
• Use AI coding agents to boost productivity, giving them the right context and detailed requirements.
• Design storage data planes and control planes for Kubernetes environments.
• Develop Kubernetes-native storage integrations using CSI, operators, controllers, CRDs, and storage classes.
• Write production-quality systems software in C++, Go, Rust, Java.
• Design for high availability, data durability, fault tolerance, replication, recovery, snapshots, cloning, and disaster recovery.
• Optimize storage for IOPS, throughput, latency, tail latency, CPU efficiency, and network utilization.
• Debug complex problems across databases, Kubernetes, Linux, networking, and storage layers.
• Lead architecture and design reviews and establish technical direction for storage platforms.
• Mentor engineers while remaining deeply hands-on with architecture, design, coding, and troubleshooting.
• Be responsible for the outcome of the domain's work.

What you'll need

• Master's degree or PhD in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.
• 15-18 years of software engineering experience with strong expertise in storage, distributed systems, databases, or infrastructure software.
• Deep knowledge of storage domains: block, file, object, or database storage.
• Strong systems programming skills in C++, Go, Rust, Java.
• Strong understanding of Linux storage and I/O architecture.
• Experience building and operating distributed systems at scale.
• Strong Kubernetes and cloud-native infrastructure experience.
• Understanding of distributed systems concepts including replication, consensus, consistency, failure detection, data placement, and recovery.
• Experience with storage technologies and protocols such as NVMe, NVMe-oF, SCSI/iSCSI, UBD, S3, CSI, io_uring, SPDK, or similar technologies.
• Ability to lead technically while remaining a hands-on engineer who designs, codes, reviews, benchmarks, and debugs production systems.

Details

• Location: Bengaluru, India.