Staff Engineer - Backend

The Opportunity

We are looking for strong and innovative Staff Engineer who will be responsible for building the AIOPs Distributed Analytics and Monitoring Software for the Nutanix platform.

About the Team

At Nutanix, you will be joining the NCM team, which comprises a dynamic group of talented professionals located in both India and the US. Our team culture is characterized by collaboration and innovation, allowing team members to express their ideas and contribute to groundbreaking projects. We encourage a supportive environment where each individual s voice is heard, fostering creativity and a shared commitment to excellence.

You will report to the Director of Engineering, who is dedicated to nurturing talent and guiding the team towards achieving our ambitious goals. Our work setup is hybrid, allowing team members to enjoy flexibility by working 2-3 days in the office each week while also having the option to work remotely. This blend of in-person and remote work ensures that we maintain strong connections with our teammates while also accommodating individual work styles.

Your Role

• A staff Engineer is responsible for building the AIOPs Distributed Analytics and Monitoring Software for the Nutanix platform.
• Needs to have a keen interest in building impactful end to end features (architecture, design, thinking through workflows / use cases / experience and development of scalable solutions for the same) for customers.
• Should have the ability to design end to end systems and write architectural and functional specifications.
• Should have the ability to provide hands-on technical leadership to a team of engineers on large cross-functional projects.
• Should strongly influence the technical decisions of multiple developers and be the technical go-to person for areas across product development and support organizations.
• Should be able to collaborate with geo-distributed teams, and have active participation in cross-functional initiatives.
• Capable of owning one or more services, their evolution, including guiding feature work on the service(s).
• Should also work with support, Product Management and customers to help guide the future direction of the AIOPs product.
• Should strongly influence the technical decisions of multiple developers.
• Technical go-to person for areas across Product Development and support organizations.
• Should serve as a technical mentor and be able to do tech talks and boot-camp presentations.

Core development:

• Develop scalable and high performance Monitoring and Analytics software
• Contribute as a strong, hands-on technical leader in product development activities to develop clean, refactored and tested code that is extensible and highly reusable.
• Develop innovative products through all phases of software development including conception, design, implementation, and deployment.
• Work in an Agile model where quality is everyone s responsibility.
• Collaboration:
• Collaborate closely with teams engaged in building the frontend and driving the user experience of the product
• Collaborate with the Product Management team to translate requirements into high-quality, timely deliverables to wow our users.
• Lead other engineers in the team to develop and use effective mechanisms to ensure code quality.
• Collaborate with teams which could be potential stakeholders of the product
• Get feedback on the product and incorporate it into the product in innovative ways.

What You Will Bring

• 10+ years of development experience using C++/Java , Python and Golang.
• Bachelor Degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• Experience in building scalable, performant distributed systems. This includes experience and strong proficiency in
  • Sync/async programming design
  • Multithreading/concurrency
  • Fault tolerant systems
  • Virtualization
  • Cloud native paradigms like Containers/Kubernetes
• Solid knowledge of Linux or Unix environment
• Familiarity with version control systems such as GIT, build management tools and Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins
• Familiarity with Unit testing frameworks
• Ability to write scripts and tools for development and debugging.
• Memory/CPU Profiling of applications
• Good knowledge of RDBMS, NOSQL & database design
• virtualization
• Basic understanding of web technologies (HTTP/S, Javascript, JSON).
• Experience with design, development and data modeling of RESTful web services
• Experience building end-to-end solutions is a plus.
• Experience building Monitoring Systems and applications is a plus.

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