Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

 

The Opportunity

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.

 

About The Team

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.

 

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 Will 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 etcUnderstand 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. 3-6 years of experience designing and developing web-scale software applications.

 

How we work:This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. For most roles, that will mean coming into an office a minimum of 2 - 3 days per week, however certain roles and/or teams may require more frequent in-office presence. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.

 

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