Senior Member of Technical Staff

The Opportunity

We are looking for an experienced Senior Member of Technical Staff (SMTS) to provide technical leadership across multiple areas of the Prism platform.

In this role, you will define technical direction, lead the design of complex distributed systems, and drive initiatives that improve the scalability, reliability, security, and operability of the Prism control plane. You will partner closely with architects, engineering managers, and product management to deliver capabilities that span multiple services and engineering teams.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy solving difficult systems problems, influencing technical strategy, and mentoring engineers through technical leadership rather than organizational authority.

The Prism team develops Nutanixs management and control plane, providing a unified platform for managing clusters, infrastructure, virtual machines, storage, and networking across hybrid cloud environments. Our mission is to build a highly available, secure, and scalable control plane that delivers a consistent management experience for enterprise customers.

Our engineers work on distributed systems, API platforms, lifecycle management, observability, identity and security, and large-scale platform services that form the foundation of the Nutanix ecosystem.

Technical Leadership

• Lead the architecture and design of major platform initiatives spanning multiple services or engineering teams.
• Work on performance analysis and micro-benchmarking of services and improve their scalability and resource efficiency.
• Drive technical decisions through design reviews, architecture discussions, and technical RFCs.
• Establish engineering standards that improve system quality, maintainability, and long-term evolution.

• Design and build highly available, fault-tolerant distributed systems that power the Prism management plane.
• Solve challenging problems involving scalability, consistency, resiliency, service discovery, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Drive improvements to platform performance, resource efficiency, and operational scalability.

• Lead the evolution of Prism APIs, management workflows, lifecycle management, and platform infrastructure.
• Improve deployment, upgrade, and operational workflows to enable reliable, zero-downtime customer upgrades.
• Drive initiatives that improve platform observability, diagnostics, and production operability.

• Identify technical risks early and drive pragmatic solutions balancing short-term delivery with long-term maintainability.
• Lead technically across multiple engineering teams to deliver large cross-functional projects.
• Collaborate closely with product management, customer support, and other platform teams to translate business requirements into scalable technical solutions.

• Raise the engineering bar through thoughtful code reviews, design reviews, mentoring, and technical coaching.
• Foster a culture of operational excellence, testing automation, performance measurement, and continuous improvement.
• Mentor engineers across the organization and help develop future technical leaders.

Experience

• 10+ years of professional software engineering experience building distributed systems, infrastructure software, or large-scale backend platforms.
• Demonstrated experience leading the technical design and delivery of complex, cross-team engineering initiatives.

Strong understanding of:

• Distributed systems architecture
• Consensus and coordination
• High availability and fault tolerance
• Concurrency and synchronization
• Replication and consistency models
• Service-oriented architectures

• Strong proficiency in Go (preferred) or in another systems language, with the ability to quickly contribute across multiple technology stacks.

Experience building production systems on Linux with strong understanding of:

• Networking fundamentals
• Containers and Kubernetes
• Storage systems
• Virtualization concepts
• Performance analysis and debugging

• Experience designing and evolving REST and/or gRPC APIs with an emphasis on long-term compatibility, versioning, security, and developer usability.

• Working knowledge of authentication, authorization, TLS, X. 509 certificates, identity management, or secure service-to-service communication.

Experience driving:

• Architecture reviews
• Design documentation
• Operational readiness
• Production incident analysis
• CI/CD improvements
• Reliability engineering

• Experience building management or control plane software.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure or virtualization platforms.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes operators and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, or distributed tracing.
• Experience designing highly available upgrade and lifecycle management systems.
• Contributions to open-source infrastructure or distributed systems projects.

Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. In locations where our workplace policy applies (i. e. San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), employees are expected to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week to foster collaboration, team alignment, and access to in-office resources. Workplace type may vary based on location and team requirements. Please speak with your recruiter for details. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.

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