Software Engineer-Senior Software Engineer – Platform Software Engineer Hopkinton, MA

Software Engineer/Senior Software Engineer – Platform Software Engineer (Hopkinton, MA)

 
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 Hopkinton, MA.

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 to our platform stack, the foundation upon which these products are built.  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. 

• Primarily C, with Python and C++ components 
• Sophisticated networking including RDMA (RoCE) 

• Scale-Out NAS Platform (BSD & Linux) 

• BSD platform work, networking stack, file systems, NFS/SMB, POSIX semantics 

• Device firmware/drivers, kernel development, NVMe/NVMe-oF 

• System Engineering  

• Programming with Python, Linux Shell and an understanding of data structures and algorithms 

• 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)