SMTS - Development

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart. The Opportunity This is a key engineering role in the Core Data Path (CDP) team, which maintains and evolves the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric (NDSF) - the foundational storage layer that powers Nutanix hyperconverged and hybrid cloud infrastructure. As a Senior Member of Technical Staff, you will work on Stargate, the data engine of NDSF. Stargate handles IO requests, data placement, dedupe, compression, encryption, resiliency, and healing from failures. The work sits close to the core of the product and directly impacts performance, reliability, scale, and customer experience. We are looking for engineers who combine strong systems fundamentals with ownership, sound design judgment, and the ability to deliver high-quality enterprise software in a complex distributed system. About the Team The CDP team was the first engineering team created at Nutanix and is responsible for the Nutanix Distributed Storage Fabric. We are hiring for the Stargate team, which is the data engine of the distributed file system. The team works on some of the most interesting problems in storage: IO path design, data placement, resiliency, healing, performance, dedupe, compression, encryption, and scale. Even after many years of product maturity, the team continues to re-invent core architecture to use newer technologies and improve product capabilities. Our primary technology stack is C++. We value deep ownership, clear design, simplicity, customer impact, and engineers who enjoy learning from one another. We work as a global team across regions and collaborate asynchronously as much as possible. Engineers are given autonomy and responsibility while working closely with stakeholders across engineering, support, product, and customer-facing teams. We focus on building infrastructure that delivers strong ROI for customers, whether through performance, reliability, simplicity, or operational savings. The best engineers on the team combine curiosity, ownership, technical depth, and humility. Your Role Design, implement, and deliver reliable, efficient, high-performance software for large-scale enterprise and hybrid cloud storage systems. Own medium-to-large feature areas end to end, from problem definition and design through implementation, validation, performance analysis, rollout, and production support. Develop a deep understanding of NDSF internals and use that context to build simple, robust solutions for customer and product requirements. Work on performance, scale-out behavior, availability, resiliency, and failure handling in a distributed storage architecture. Debug complex production and test issues across distributed components, using data, logs, metrics, and strong systems reasoning. Collaborate closely with development, test, documentation, support, product management, and customer-facing teams to deliver high-quality outcomes. Mentor junior engineers through design reviews, code reviews, debugging guidance, and clear technical communication. What You Will Bring Strong OS, systems programming, and distributed systems fundamentals, with the ability to apply them to practical design and implementation tradeoffs. Hands-on experience building and maintaining enterprise-quality software, preferably in C++ or another low-level systems language. Proven ability to own non-trivial features or components in a production software system. Good debugging skills for concurrency, performance, memory, correctness, and failure scenarios. Ability to reason from first principles, break ambiguous problems into actionable pieces, and communicate design choices clearly. A customer-first mindset and willingness to engage on production issues when engineering help is needed. Hungry, humble, honest attitude with heart, and a strong sense of collaboration in a dynamic engineering team. Bachelor's or master's degree in Computer Science or a related engineering field, or equivalent practical experience. Typically 9-12 years of relevant systems software experience. Good to have : Experience with distributed storage systems, filesystems, databases, consensus, replication, erasure coding, snapshots, caching, or data reduction technologies. Experience with performance analysis, profiling, benchmarking, scale testing, or production incident debugging. Familiarity with Linux internals, networking, concurrency primitives, memory management, or low-level IO paths. Experience working with large C++ codebases and writing maintainable, testable, production-grade code. Work Arrangement 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. --