Software Senior Principal Engineer Datapath

Responsibilities

• Design and build next-generation AI data platform storage and mission-critical components.
• Own end-to-end problems across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and supportability within cluster storage systems.
• Build and harden distributed services including durability, consistency, replication, data paths, and metadata.
• Optimize performance across computer, memory, IO, networking (RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD).
• Drive reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, and chaos testing.
• Collaborate in scrum teams, write design documents (RFCs/PRDs), perform code reviews, and mentor engineers.

Requirements

• 12-17 years of experience in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance).
• Proficiency in C/C++ or Java.
• Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., strace, dtrace, eBPF, tcpdump).
• Proven technical leadership expertise in setting technical direction and cross-product architecture.
• Ability to write clean, testable code and familiarity with CI/CD pipelines.

Preferred Qualifications

• Expertise in kernel subsystems, device drivers, firmware, or RDMA/verbs.
• Experience with SPDK/DPDK, JVM tuning, or lock-free concurrent data structures.
• Knowledge of filesystem internals (NFS/SMB, S3 object store, erasure coding).
• Experience with security and cryptography (FIPS/CC compliance) and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Proficiency in Python.

Benefits

• Comprehensive healthcare programs.
• Award-winning financial wellness tools and resources.
• Generous leave of absence for new parents and caregivers.
• Industry-leading wellness platform.

About the Company

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live, and play. Our Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world, working at the cutting edge of enterprise-grade scalable storage systems.