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The Opportunity

Do you love building scalable compute or data platforms? We are currently looking for an experienced Engineer to help us deliver a core cloud platform service that will be consumed by the internal product/app engineering teams as well as Nutanix customers.

About The Team

The Nutanix Cloud Platform team works on the most cutting-edge tools to solve hard scaling problems. We work in a fast-paced startup mindset and look forward to adding self-initiated team members who like to take ownership and build great internal-facing platform services.

Your Role

• Design and develop enterprise life cycle management software for backend / datastore components which will be shipped to customer s premises.
• Improve performance and scalability of the backend / datastore components.
• Leverage open-source projects to build systems and make contributions back to them.
• Build & support internal-facing platform services that will be used by different engineering teams in the organization.

What You Will Bring

• Love for programming and rock-solid in one or more languages: Java, Golang or C++.
• Good understanding of data structure and algorithms.
• Understand multiple open-source distributed databases / queues / workflow systems, its trade-offs and capabilities to leverage the right tool for the right set of use cases.
• Experience with containerization of stateful applications like Cassandra, Elasticsearch, Postgres, Redis, etc will be a huge plus.
• Experience in Analytical datastores such as Apache Druid or ClickHouse is a huge plus.
• Experience with Workflow systems such as Conductor / Temporal / Apache Airflow is a huge plus.
• Experience in container orchestration and service mesh technologies like Kubernetes, Nomad, Istio, Consul, etc will be a huge plus.
• Familiarity in designing and architecting applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP.
• Understand scaling issues and come up with product (open source) solutions.
• Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, and design/ implementation tradeoffs in building clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems software.
• Bachelors/Masters degree in Computer Science or related field required.
• 5-8 years of experience designing and developing web-scale software applications.

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