Software Senior Principal Engineer Datapath

Software Senior Principal Engineer – I9

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application
enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge,
we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and
diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software
engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external
partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as
a Software Senior Principal Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in
Bangalore.

What you’ll achieve
As a Software Senior Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for developing
sophisticated systems and software basis the customer’s business goals, needs
and general business environment creating software solutions.

We build enterprise-grade, massively scalable storage systems—clustered,
high-performance, and resilient—running across Linux and BSD. Our portfolio
includes a multi-petabyte S3 object store and a scale-out NAS platform. We’re a
modern, scrum-based engineering org that ships with high velocity and quality,
using the best tools, hardware, and practices.

You Will:

* Design and build next-generation AI data platform storage - mission-critical
components powering our AI strategy—giving you the opportunity to tackle
state-of-the-art problems in scale, performance, and reliability.
* Own problems end-to-end across design, implementation, testing, deployment,
and supportability—within a cluster storage system.
* Build and harden distributed services: durability, consistency, replication,
data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, and lifecycle
management.
* Optimize performance across computer, memory, IO, networking (including
RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD/AFA); drive latency and throughput
improvements with data-driven profiling and advance reliability through
observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated
remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability.
* Collaborate in scrum teams; write clear design docs, PRDs, and RFCs; perform
code reviews and mentor peers. Raise product quality via automated tests,
CI/CD pipelines, build hygiene, and release engineering & Contribute to
security & compliance (TLS, authN/Z, crypto, FIPS, STIG/NIST best practices)
and secure-by-default engineering.

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s
what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

* 12  -17 years of experience in systems programming and distributed systems
fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault
tolerance).
* Proficiency in at least one of C/C++ OR Java and Python (good to have);
willingness to learn across the stack.
* Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., performance,
strace/dtrace/eBPF, tcpdump) and ability to write clean, testable code;
familiarity with unit/integration/system testing and CI/CD.
* Technical leadership expertise of building and growing high-performing
engineering teams, mentoring senior engineers, and setting technical
direction for critical AI data platform storage systems.
* Must have proven experience setting technical direction and cross-product
architecture, delivering high-impact performance and reliability
improvements, and raising the company-wide engineering bar through
mentorship, clear communication, collaboration, and a bias for action.

Desirable Requirements

* Systems & Performance Engineering: Expertise in kernel subsystems, device
drivers, firmware; RDMA/verbs; SPDK/DPDK; JVM tuning and GC; async/reactive
patterns; lock-free/concurrent data structures; filesystem internals
(NFS/SMB, S3 object store, erasure coding); observability stacks, performance
profiling at scale, and chaos/failure injection.
* Security & Cloud Platforms: Skilled in security and cryptography (FIPS/CC
compliance), secure boot, TPM, HSM integrations; experienced with private and
public cloud environments including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform
(GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) & exposure or usage of AI tools to build
code/design is big plus.

Who we are

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That’s why we put
our team members at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for an
opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced
tech in the industry, we’re looking for you.

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and
organizations transform how they work, live and play. Join us to build a future
that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.

Application closing date: 30 May 2026

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