Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer – Locations:
Round Rock, TX;
Hopkinton, MA;
Seattle WA;
Raleigh NC

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Software Engineer / Senior Software Engineer on our Software Engineering Team.

We build enterprise‑grade, massively scalable cluster‑based storage systems running across Linux and BSD. Our portfolio includes a multi‑petabyte S3 object store and a scale‑out NAS platform. We’re a modern, scrum‑based engineering org that ships with high velocity and quality, using the best tools, hardware, and practices.

• 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, I/O, 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.

You are expected to work across multiple skills in the following areas.

• Massively Scalable S3 Object Store
• Primarily Java (server‑side), with deep I/O paths in C++
• Sophisticated networking including RDMA (RoCE)
• Scale‑Out NAS Platform (BSD & Linux)
• Primarily C, with Python and C++ components
• BSD platform work, networking stack, file systems, NFS/SMB, POSIX semantics
• Device firmware/drivers, kernel development, NVMe/NVMe‑oF
• Control Plane & Systems Management
• Cluster orchestration, configuration, leader election/consensus, upgrades/rollback, health & remediation
• APIs (REST/gRPC), CLI/UX tooling, tenant/resource isolation
• System Engineering
• Programming with Python, Linux Shell and an understanding data structures and algorithms
• OS Unix/Linux/BSD, NAS, Object storage/High availability services in private cloud/hybrid cloud environment
• Knows Postgre
  
  SQL/MySQL, LDAP, Data Analysis, Distributed systems
• Read/Write (IOPs, Latency, Bandwidth), I/O datapath, NFS, SMB, S3, ACLs, networking layers (switching, routing, VLANs)
• Performance & Observability/Security, Serviceability & Supportability

• 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.

• 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)

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for the Software Engineer position is $130K to $155K. The salary range for the Senior Software Engineer position is $158K to $185K (note compensation may vary depending on location).

Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member.

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Job : R285271