Senior Software Engineer

Dell • Seattle, MA

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About The Position

Senior Software Engineer The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners. 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. Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Software Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Round Rock, Texas, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Seattle, Washington . What you’ll achieve As a Senior Software Engineer , you will deliver scalable, high-performance storage and systems software that powers secure, highly available private and hybrid cloud solutions for customers. You will:

Requirements

• Strong foundation in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, storage architecture, consistency models, and fault tolerance
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (C/C++, Java, or Python) with the willingness to learn across the full technology stack
• Hands-on experience developing and debugging on Linux or BSD systems, using performance and observability tools such as perf, strace/dtrace/eBPF, and tcpdump
• Demonstrate ability to write clean, testable code, with experience across unit, integration, and system-level testing and CI/CD pipelines

Nice To Haves

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Deep understanding and knowledge across kernel subsystems, device drivers, and firmware, with hands-on experience in RDMA/verbs and user‑space, high-performance I/O frameworks (SPDK, DPDK)

Responsibilities

• 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

Benefits

• 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 MyWellatDell.com

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 501-1,000 employees