Senior Software Engineer

About Nasuni:

We are a profitable, growing SaaS data infrastructure company reinventing enterprise file storage and data management in an AI-driven world. We power the data infrastructure of the world's most innovative enterprises.

Backed by Vista Equity Partners, our engineers aren't working behind the scenes — they're building what's next with AI. Our platform lets businesses seamlessly store, access, protect, and unlock AI-driven insights from exploding volumes of unstructured file data. Our engineers help build AI-powered infrastructure trusted by 900+ global customers, including Dow, Mattel, and Autodesk.

Summary of Role:

Nasuni is growing its Storage Network Protocols team and is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in Linux/CentOS environments. This role involves designing and owning core technologies focused on high availability and non-disruptive upgrade mechanisms in distributed systems.

The ideal candidate is passionate about building scalable, resilient storage solutions and thrives in a hands-on engineering environment. You'll contribute directly to critical system components and help shape the evolution of Nasuni's platform as it scales.

As a Sr. Software Engineer at Nasuni, you will play a key role in enhancing our cloud-scale NAS platform. Your responsibilities will include:

• Collaborating on requirements analysis, architecture design, and design reviews to evolve Nasuni's core platform and operating system.
• Developing and maintaining software and services that power our NAS appliance, delivering high performance and reliability to customers.
• Building and enhancing High Availability (HA) and Upgrade mechanisms to ensure seamless, non-disruptive customer experiences.
• Investigating and resolving bugs and defects reported by QA, customer support, and the development team.

Primary Responsibilities:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale, highly available distributed systems or cloud-based services.
• Proven expertise in C and C++ programming, with a strong focus on performance and reliability.
• Solid understanding of Linux clustering technologies such as Pacemaker, Corosync, etc.
• Proficient in object-oriented design and SDK development in both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Deep knowledge of data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded systems, I/O subsystems, and Linux internals including XFS/EXT filesystems.
• Strong grasp of operating systems, distributed systems architecture, and cloud service fundamentals.
• Experience working with hypervisor platforms such as ESX, Hyper-V, KVM, or OpenStack.
• Ability to work with technical partners to translate ambiguous requirements into well-defined, actionable designs and component-level specifications.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to clearly present complex technical topics to diverse audiences.
• Ability to lead technical implementation efforts, including rapid prototyping and delivery of proof-of-concept solutions.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate and support team members, contributing to team knowledge around tools, technologies, and development best practices.

Qualifications:

• Computer Science degree or similar experience that includes System Design, Design Principals, Code Architecture.
• Our Cloud-Native Platform connects to enterprise applications and public storage via Software API's. Having prior API creation and utilization is essential.
• Experience with and contributions to open-source communities is a plus
• PostgreSQL is used as the backbone to our system, prior Postgres is helpful.
• Exposure to Cloud Storage backend integration with AWS or Azure.
• Knowledge of containerization with Docker and Kubernetes
• Other high-level languages including Golang, Java, or Perl