Senior Software Engineer – Storage Network Protocols
Location: Hyderabad IIC (Hybrid) 3 days onsite/ 2 days remote
Role Overview
Nasuni is expanding its Storage Network Protocols team and seeking a Senior Software Engineer to design and own core components of our cloud-scale NAS platform.
This role is for engineers who thrive in Linux-based distributed systems and want to build highly available, non-disruptive storage infrastructure used by global enterprises.
You will directly contribute to high availability (HA), upgrade orchestration, and protocol-level resilience across NFS, SMB, and related services. Your work will impact uptime, data integrity, and customer trust at enterprise scale.
This role is ideal for engineers who:
- Have designed and shipped distributed systems in C/C++
- Enjoy solving deep Linux and filesystem challenges
- Want ownership of critical infrastructure components
This role is not designed for:
- Engineers focused primarily on frontend or application-layer development
- Candidates without hands-on Linux systems programming experience
Level & Scope Definition
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will:
- Own and evolve core HA and upgrade subsystems within the NAS appliance.
- Design and implement fault-tolerant mechanisms in Linux-based clustered environments.
- Independently drive technical solutions from design through deployment.
- Participate in architecture reviews and influence platform decisions.
- Collaborate cross-functionally with QA, Cloud, Support, and Platform teams.
- Investigate and resolve complex production issues affecting reliability or performance.
This role operates with high autonomy and system-level accountability but does not include people management responsibilities.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and implement high availability mechanisms using clustering technologies (e.g., Pacemaker, Corosync).
- Build and maintain non-disruptive upgrade systems for distributed storage environments.
- Develop high-performance services in C and C++ within Linux/CentOS environments.
- Optimize multi-threaded I/O and storage subsystems for performance and reliability.
- Enhance protocol integrations including NFS, SMB, CIFS, and Samba.
- Debug complex production defects across distributed and filesystem layers.
- Contribute to SDK and API integrations between on-prem and cloud storage environments.
- Collaborate on architectural evolution of Nasuni’s operating system and NAS platform.
Must-Have Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience building large-scale distributed systems or cloud infrastructure services.
- Strong proficiency in C and C++ for performance-critical systems.
- Deep experience with Linux internals and filesystems (XFS, EXT).
- Hands-on experience with Linux clustering technologies (Pacemaker, Corosync, or equivalent).
- Experience designing high availability or failover systems.
- Strong understanding of multi-threaded systems and I/O performance tuning.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with hypervisors (ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, OpenStack).
- Exposure to cloud storage backend integration (AWS, Azure).
- PostgreSQL experience.
- Docker or Kubernetes familiarity.
- Experience working with storage protocols (NFS, SMB, CIFS, Samba).
- Experience developing or integrating enterprise APIs.
Ideal Qualifications
- Demonstrated ownership of HA or upgrade frameworks in production environments.
- Experience contributing to open-source systems projects.
- Experience supporting enterprise-scale customers.
- Familiarity with distributed system failure modeling and recovery patterns.
Experience Guidelines
- 5–10 years total software engineering experience.
- 3+ years in distributed systems or infrastructure software.
- 2+ years working in Linux-based production systems environments.
About Nasuni
Nasuni is the unstructured data foundation for enterprise teams—and the AI that supports them. We manage, protect, and activate the world’s unstructured data so organizations can work smarter, spend wisely, and create safely without limits. As a Vista-backed SaaS data infrastructure company, Nasuni is transforming how enterprises manage file data with a next-generation, AI-ready platform—turning massive file stores into secure, actionable, and AI-ready data for intelligent automation, analytics, and global collaboration.
Why Work at Nasuni (Hyderabad / India)
With Vista Equity Partners’ backing, our Hyderabad team benefits from access to a global ecosystem of software leaders—cross-portfolio learning, leadership programs, and AI innovation communities—combining the pace of a fast-growing company with the scale and resources of a global technology investor. You’ll innovate at the intersection of cloud, AI, and enterprise data infrastructure, collaborate with talented teams, and build modern platforms trusted by enterprises worldwide. Join us in Hyderabad and help shape the future of intelligent, AI-ready data management.
Why Work at Nasuni – Hyderabad?
As part of our commitment to your well-being and growth, Nasuni offers competitive benefits designed to support every stage of your life and career:
- Competitive compensation programs
- Flexible time off and leave policies
- Comprehensive health and wellness coverage
- Hybrid and flexible work arrangements
- Employee referral and recognition programs
- Professional development and learning support
- Inclusive, collaborative team culture
- Modern office spaces with team events and perks
- Retirement and statutory benefits as per Indian regulations
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