Senior Software Engineer

Job Summary
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Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live and play. As a Senior Software Engineer on the Software Engineering Team, you will contribute to building enterprise-grade storage systems and optimizing performance while ensuring reliability and security.

Responsibilities
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• Own problems end-to-end across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and supportability—within a cluster storage system.

• Build and harden distributed services: durability, consistency, replication, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, and lifecycle management.

• Optimize performance across compute, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling.

• Advance reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability.

• Contribute to security & compliance with secure-by-default engineering.

Qualifications
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Required
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• Strength in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance).

• Proficiency in at least one of C/C++, Java, or Python; willingness to learn across the stack.

• Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., perf, strace/dtrace/eBPF, tcpdump).

• Ability to write clean, testable code; familiarity with unit/integration/system testing and CI/CD.

• Clear communication, collaboration, and a bias for action.

Preferred
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• Kernel subsystems, device drivers, firmware; RDMA/verbs; SPDK/DPDK/JVM tuning and GC; async/reactive patterns; lock-free/concurrent data structures.

• File system internals; NFS/SMB semantics; S3 object store internals; erasure coding/Observability stacks, performance profiling at scale, chaos/failure-injection.

• Security, crypto, FIPS/CC, secure boot, TPM, HSM integrations/Private or Public cloud (Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, and Amazon AWS).

Company
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Dell Technologies provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future. Founded in 2016, the company is headquartered in Round Rock, USA, with a team of 10001+ employees. The company is currently Late Stage.