Senior Software Engineer

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a  Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer  on our Software Engineering Team in Round Rock, TX: Hopkinton, MA: Seattle WA and Raliegh NC. What you'll achieve We build enterprise-grade, massively scalable cluster-based storage systems 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. As a Software Engineer, you will contribute anywhere in our stack and help us decide where your strengths best fit as you onboard. If you can explain how and where you'll add outsized value in a distributed storage architecture, we want to talk. You will: 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 compute, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling. Advance reliability  through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability. Contribute to security & compliance  with 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: Where You Might Contribute You are expected to work across multiple skills in the following areas. Massively Scalable S3 Object Store Primarily  Java  (server-side), with deep IO paths in  C++ Sophisticated networking including  RDMA (RoCE) Scale-Out NAS Platform (BSD & Linux) Primarily  C , with  Python  and  C++  components BSD platform work, networking stack, file systems, NFS/SMB, POSIX semantics Device firmware/drivers, kernel development, NVMe/NVMe-oF Control Plane & Systems Management Cluster orchestration, configuration, leader election/consensus, upgrades/rollback, health & remediation APIs (REST/gRPC), CLI/UX tooling, tenant/resource isolation System Engineering Programming with Python, Linux Shell and an understanding data structures and algorithms OS Unix/Linux/BSD, NAS, Object storage/High availability services in private cloud/hybrid cloud environment Knows PostgreSQL/MySQL, LDAP, Data Analysis, Distributed systems Read/Write (IOPs, Latency, Bandwidth), I/O datapath, NFS, SMB, S3, ACLs, networking layers (switching, routing, vlans) Performance & Observability/Security, Serviceability & Supportability Essential Requirements Strength in  systems programming  and  distributed systems  fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance). Proficiency in at least one of  C/C++ ,  Java , or  Python ; willingness to learn across the stack. Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., perf, strace/dtrace/eBPF, tcpdump). Ability to write clean, testable code; familiarity with unit/integration/system testing and CI/CD. Clear communication, collaboration, and a bias for action. Desirable Requirements 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 semantics; S3 object store internals; erasure coding/Observability stacks, performance profiling at scale, chaos/failure-injection Security, crypto, FIPS/CC, secure boot, TPM, HSM integrations/Private or Public cloud (Microsoft Azure, Google GCP, and Amazon AWS) Compensation Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for the Software Engineer position is 130K to 155K The salary range for the Senior Software Engineer position is 158K to 185K (Note compensation may vary depending on location) Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies Your life. Your health. Supported by your benefits. You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member "” right now at 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. Dell Technologies is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Read the full Equal Employment Opportunity Policy here. Job ID: R285271

Created: 2026-02-18