Senior Software Engineer – File System

Level & Scope Definition

Responsibilities

• Design and implement core file system and storage platform capabilities using C and C++.
• Build and improve services related to metadata, snapshots, caching, replication, recovery, data consistency, and storage efficiency.
• Contribute to NFS, SMB, S3, POSIX, or related file access and storage protocol capabilities.
• Debug complex issues across distributed services, Linux environments, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure.
• Improve performance, scalability, reliability, observability, and test coverage for production systems.
• Partner with engineering teams to deliver secure, maintainable, and operationally efficient platform improvements.
• Participate in design reviews, code reviews, incident analysis, and root-cause investigations.
• Use AI-assisted engineering workflows where appropriate for code generation, debugging, test creation, log analysis, documentation, and workflow automation while maintaining accountability for correctness, security, and quality.
• Mentor engineers through code review, technical guidance, and practical systems engineering practices.

Expected Outcomes & Impact

Must Have

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including substantial systems programming experience.
• Strong C and C++ development skills in production environments.
• Experience with Linux, concurrency, memory management, debugging, and performance analysis.
• Experience building or operating distributed systems, storage systems, file systems, or infrastructure software.
• Understanding of file system concepts such as POSIX semantics, metadata, caching, consistency, snapshots, replication, or recovery.
• Experience owning complex technical work from design through production release.
• Strong debugging, testing, code review, and root-cause analysis skills.

Preferred

Ideal

Experience Guidelines

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