Director of Engineering
Location Bangalore, India
Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.
The Opportunity
At Nutanix, we are trying to build the next generation platform to help enterprises model and develop applications; encapsulate the application architecture and deployment as code. Our goal is to provide application lifecycle operations such as build, deploy, start, stop, upgrade and retire, “out of the box”. We want enterprises to be able to manage and move their application workloads, across and between bare metal, VMs on premise or cloud or containers. Nutanix has disrupted the multi-billion dollar virtualization market by pioneering the first converged compute & storage virtualization appliance that can incrementally scale out to manage petabytes of data while running tens of thousands of virtual machines. We strive to bring simplicity in data center management and constantly challenge ourselves to make complex systems simple.
Engineering / R&D at Nutanix:
Nutanix Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides a repository for unstructured data, such as home directories, user profiles, departmental shares, application logs, backups, and archives. Flexible and responsive to workload requirements, Files is a fully integrated core component of Nutanix.
Your Role
Team building: Hire and grow a team of high performing engineers with diverse skill-sets
Engineering & Release Management: Live the enterprise software release principles and create a high performing team through them. Refine and grow existing processes or develop new ones to enable smooth functioning of engineering team
Drive development of timely and high quality software releases
Product and Technical: Drive product direction and strategy by interfacing regularly with product managers, solution architects, sales engineers and customers.
Drive scalable, extensible architecture by participating in architecture and technical design skills
Required Skills:
Leadership: Strong leader capable of motivating the very best software engineers, as well as gaining their respect.
That rare mix of intelligence, initiative, integrity, domain knowledge, verbal agility, and diplomacy which allows you to rapidly earn the trust of astute teams and individuals across the company
People-oriented: Ensure the team of engineers and/or managers are happy, motivated and engaged
Collaboration and communication: Collaborating with the geo-distributed teams. Communicate across functional teams, keeping various engineering, product and business stakeholders informed. Experience building and cultivating strong engineering practices and processes
Planning & execution: Should be able to own and deliver large projects end to end, keeping track of timelines. Be able to keep track of (and context switch between) different threads and ensure that details don’t slip through the cracks
Solid technical skills: Experience with enterprise File System or Storage software development built and delivered on-prem, AWS, Azure or GCP. Strong experience in having built, operated and scaled distributed, large-scale, fault-tolerant systems. Familiarity with virtualization, containers and/or storage management. Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, web scale systems. Experience in one of following programming languages: Python/GoLang/C/C++/Java. o Experience with NFS, SMB, S3, ZFS and any other large scale distributed file stores preferred.
What You Will Bring
BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering
10+ Years of experience, 5+ Years of management experience
Proven ability in recruiting, growing a strong technical team and providing technical mentoring and leadership
Experience working with product management, customers and engineering teams to define, size and scope projects and initiatives
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