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Staff Engineer

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15 hours ago
Pune, IndiaStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Lead systems and storage performance engineering at staff or principal level.
  • Profile and tune Linux storage I/O paths and kernel modules.
  • Benchmark distributed storage at scale using fio and file-system tools.
  • Optimize NVMe/NVMe-oF, block-device internals, erasure coding, RAID data paths, RDMA, TCP offload, and NUMA-aware systems.
  • Use C, Python, perf, ftrace, eBPF, and flamegraphs for performance analysis.
  • Add build gating and smoke-test stages to prevent broken builds from reaching QE.

Requirements

  • 12+ years of systems or storage performance engineering experience at staff or principal level.
  • Deep experience with Linux storage I/O paths and kernel module profiling and tuning.
  • Experience with distributed storage benchmarking at scale.
  • Strong knowledge of NVMe/NVMe-oF, block-device internals, erasure coding, RAID data paths, RDMA, TCP offload, and NUMA-aware tuning.
  • Proficiency in C, Python, and Linux performance tooling.
  • Preferred experience with Lustre performance, including LNet, OSTs/MDTs, obdfilter-survey, and client fio.
  • Preferred experience with software-defined NVMe-oF, distributed block storage internals, cloud bare-metal platforms, dense NVMe platforms, OFED/MOFED/DOCA driver evaluation, and ConnectX-class NIC tuning.
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