Backend Engineer (3-15years of experience)
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About the Role
Nutanix is seeking a Backend Engineer to join the Enterprise AI team, building scalable services on Kubernetes for AI infrastructure. The role involves architecting, designing, and developing containerized, fault-tolerant systems, optimizing performance, and contributing to open-source cloud-native projects.
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Responsibilities
- Architect, design, and develop horizontally scalable, containerized, fault tolerant services on Kubernetes
- Improve the performance of systems to deliver for low latency and high throughput use cases
- Optimize any part of the stack, including low level systems
- Leverage and contribute to relevant open source cloud native projects
- Develop scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant observability architectures
- Collaborate closely with globally located product management and backend development teams
- Contribute to all stages of the product development cycle: technical design, development, test, experimentation, analysis, and launch
- Review code and design docs, give feedback on product specs and mocks
- Participate in ongoing process definition and technology selection
Requirements
- 4 7 years of experience developing maintainable, modular, resilient code from a Product Development company
- Strong programming fundamentals, data structures, and algorithms
- Strong experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud native technologies
- Experience building applications with Go and Python
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines
- Strong understanding of datacenter design, including computing, storage, and networking
- Familiarity with on prem, cloud, and hybrid software deployment architectures
- Good experience in designing and tuning high performance system software
- Strong understanding of distributed computing and storage architectures
- Strong knowledge of OS internals, virtualization, application performance monitoring, compute storage, and networking management
- Bachelor's/Master's in Computer Science or equivalent work experience
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The Opportunity
- Nutanix is simplifying the future of AI with the Nutanix Cloud Platform for AI.
- The Enterprise AI team drives strategic products such as LLM Inference, the AI Gateway, and the Agentic AI Platform.
- Join the team responsible for the foundational AI technologies powering the next wave of intelligent applications.
Your Role
- Architect, design, and develop horizontally scalable, containerized, fault tolerant services on Kubernetes.
- Improve the performance of systems to deliver for low latency and high throughput use cases.
- Optimize any part of the stack, including low level systems.
- Leverage and contribute to relevant open source cloud native projects.
- Develop scalable, efficient, and fault tolerant observability architectures.
- Collaborate closely with globally located product management and backend development teams.
- Contribute to all stages of the product development cycle.
- Be a team player by reviewing code and design docs.
- Participate in ongoing process definition and technology selection.
- Continuously learn and improve your technical and non technical abilities.
What You Will Bring
- 4 7 years of experience developing maintainable, modular, resilient, fail safe, and long lasting code from a Product Development company.
- Strong programming fundamentals, data structure, and algorithms.
- Strong experience in Docker, Kubernetes, and Cloud native technologies.
- Experience building applications with Go and Python.
- Experience building and managing CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong understanding of datacenter design, including computing, storage, and networking.
- Familiarity with on prem, cloud, and hybrid software deployment architectures.
- Good experience in designing and tuning high performance system software.
- Strong understanding of distributed computing and storage architectures.
- Strong knowledge of OS internals, virtualization, application performance monitoring, compute storage, and networking management.
- Familiarity with machine learning concepts and popular frameworks (like TensorFlow, PyTorch) is a strong plus.
- Experience with hardware accelerators, such as GPUs, is a strong plus.
Highlighted Benefits (Vancouver, Canada)
- RRSP with dollar for dollar matching up to 7% of base salary.
- Dedicated mental health coverage plus top tier paramedical benefits.
- Fully paid maternity and parental leave and generous bereavement leave.
- RSUs and Employee Stock Purchase Plan at a 15% discount.
- Company holidays, sick days, company wellness days, and vacation starting at 10 days.
- Hybrid work arrangement: 3 days per week in office.
Pay Transparency
- Base pay range: CAD 128,800 to CAD 193,200 per annual.
- Total compensation may include sign on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards.
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