Nutanix Hiring for Member of Technical Staff 4 – Distributed Systems Engineer, Data Platforms [5-8 yrs experience] at Bangalore, India Full Time

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with a Heart.

The Opportunity:

Do you love scaling data systems for high throughput and low latency? The Cloud data platform team works on the most cutting-edge data platform databases/tools to solve hard data-scaling problems. We work in a fast-paced startup mindset and look forward to adding self-initiated team members who like to take ownership and build great data platform services.

We are currently looking for an experienced distributed systems Engineer to help us deliver a core data platform service that will be consumed by the internal product/app engineering teams as well as Nutanix customers.

Your Role:

• Build and optimize distributed data systems that can scale for large volumes of data.

• Architect, design and develop Web-scale libraries and services.

• Keep an eye out for latest technology trends, open-source projects that can be leveraged, and make contributions back to the open-source projects.

• Build, scale & maintain internal-facing platforms that will be used by multiple engineering teams.

What you’ll bring:

• Love for programming and rock-solid in one or more languages: C++ or Go.

• Good understanding of data structure and algorithms.

• Understands multiple open-source distributed database systems and its tradeoff and is capable of leveraging the right tool for the right use cases.

• Can understand the requirements and is capable of mapping it to right databases, knobs etc

• Understand data layer scaling issues and come up with product (open source) solutions.

• Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, and design/ implementation tradeoffs in building clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems software.

• Experience in working with large codebases or contribution to open source.

• Good knowledge of Systems Networking and distributed systems.

Preferred Skills:

• Experience in one of the Time Series / analytics databases is a huge plus.

• Experience in docker and kubernetes is a huge plus.

• Familiarity with consensus protocols (Paxos/Raft/ZAP) and systems (Zookeeper) is a huge plus.

• Familiarity in designing and deploying applications on a datacenter or one of the clouds – AWS, Azure, or GCP is a huge plus.

• Prior contribution to open source databases is a huge plus.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s degree in Computer Science or related field required.

• 5-8 years of experience designing and developing web-scale software applications.

We’re an Equal Opportunity Employer Nutanix is an Equal Employment Opportunity and (in the U.S.) an Affirmative Action employer. Qualified applicants are considered for employment opportunities without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, disability status or any other category protected by applicable law. We hire and promote individuals solely on the basis of qualifications for the job to be filled. We strive to foster an inclusive working environment that enables all our Nutants to be themselves and to do great work in a safe and welcoming environment, free of unlawful discrimination, intimidation or harassment. As part of this commitment, we will ensure that persons with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations. If you need a reasonable accommodation, please let us know by contacting CandidateAccommodationRequests@nutanix.com.