Senior Engineer – Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform

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Senior Engineer – Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform The Opportunity We have an outstanding career opportunity for Senior Engineer- Distributed File Systems and Linux Platform at Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore locations. As a Senior Engineer you will design, and performance optimization of large-scale distributed storage/file systems on Linux platforms. This role requires deep expertise in kernel internals, storage stacks, and distributed systems at scale.

What You’ll Do…

• Design of scalable, fault-tolerant distributed file systems (e.g., object/block/file storage)
• Define system architecture for high availability, consistency, and performance
• Drive design decisions across storage, networking, and compute layers
• Deep involvement in Linux kernel, filesystem internals, and I/O stack
• Optimize performance across: VFS layer, page cache, block layer, Networking stack (TCP/IP, RDMA), Debug kernel-level issues (panic, memory leaks, I/O bottlenecks).
• Design and implement: Replication, erasure coding, Consensus protocols (Raft/Paxos), Metadata management systems, Ensure strong/ eventual consistency models
• Analyze and improve system performance (latency, throughput, IOPS)
• Conduct benchmarking and capacity planning
• Optimize for large-scale deployments (PB-scale storage)
• Build systems for fault detection, recovery, and self-healing
• Implement observability:
• Metrics
• Tracing
• Logging
• Root cause analysis of production issues

Who You Are…

• Bachelor's degree required.
• 3+ years of experience in systems engineering.
• Strong expertise in : Linux kernel internals, Filesystems (ext4, XFS, btrfs, ZFS concepts), Distributed storage systems (Ceph, HDFS, GlusterFS, Lustre).
• Deep understanding of Memory management, Concurrency and synchronization, Networking protocols
• Debugging & Tools : perf, ftrace, eBPF, gdb, System profiling and tracing tools, Crash dump analysis
• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Ability to lead without authority
• Excellent communication with cross-functional teams
• Defines storage architecture used by millions of users
• Drives performance improvements at infrastructure level
• Security and SaaS experience strongly preferred.

You’ll Love Working Here Because

• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Annual health check-ups, Car lease Program, and Tuition Reimbursement
• An inclusive company culture, an opportunity to join our Community Guilds
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