Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart! The Opportunity Nutanix has disrupted the multi-billion-dollar virtualization market by pioneering the first converged compute & storage virtualization appliance that can incrementally scale out to manage petabytes of data while running tens of thousands of virtual machines. Here at Nutanix we are looking for a Software Engineer in the Core Data Path that are responsible for the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) that underlies the entire Nutanix solution. This storage stack (a high-performance shared-nothing distributed file system) is the foundational piece to enable hyper-convergence and hybrid cloud solutions. The software defined storage helps us power infrastructure for all kinds of applications on all kinds of platforms. That coupled with a simplicity focused design makes the engineering problem both profound and rewarding. The engineer will take responsibility for end to end quality and work with a team with a deep understanding of systems internals and distributed file systems. The Team The CDP team was the first team created at Nutanix. It is the team responsible for the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) - a high-performance shared-nothing distributed file system. The Stargate team is the "data-engine" of the distributed file system, which is responsible for handling all the IO requests, placing data, handling dedupe, compression, erasure-coding and encryption, healing from failures, etc. The work for the Stargate team is challenging because designing an enterprise-grade distributed file system means that we have strict requirements of consistency and performance, and we always have to reinvent ourselves as newer and faster drive technologies emerge.
- The Role
- Architect, design and develop reliable, efficient, high-performance data-path software for large-scale enterprise and hybrid cloud.
- Develop an understanding of complex distributed systems and design innovative solutions for customer requirements.
- Work on performance, scaling out, and resiliency of distributed storage systems.
- Work alongside development, test, documentation, and product management teams to deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment.
- Engage with customers and support when needed to solve production issues.
- What youll bring
- Completion of a bachelors or master's degree in Computer Science or a related Engineering field is required.
- 6-10 Years of experience in designing and developing applications is required.
- Familiarity with OS internals, distributed systems and good practices for design/implementation.
- Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and analysis techniques
- Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, web scale systems and proven ability in having built clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed applications or systems software.
- Experience with any of file systems, operating systems, database back-ends, distributed systems, cloud technologies
- Past projects involving large-scale distributed systems such as Hadoop, Cassandra, Zookeeper
- Comfortable with virtualization technologies like KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, Xen
- Love of programming and expertise in one or more languages: C++, C, Java
- Hungry and humble attitude with a keen sense of working as part of a dynamic team.
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Job ID: 523408171
Originally Posted on: 6/3/2026
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