Senior Engineer – Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform

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About Commvault

Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover take action and rapidly recover from cyberattacks keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The companys unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection exceptional data security advanced data intelligence and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years more than 100000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks improve governance and do more with data.

Senior Engineer Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform

The Opportunity

We have an outstanding career opportunity for Senior Engineer- Distributed File Systems and Linux Platform at Pune Hyderabad and Bangalore locations. As a Senior Engineer you will design and performance optimization of large-scale distributed storage/file systems on Linux platforms. This role requires deep expertise in kernel internals storage stacks and distributed systems at scale.

What youll do

• Design of scalable fault-tolerant distributed file systems (e.g. object/block/file storage)
• Define system architecture for high availability consistency and performance
• Drive design decisions across storage networking and compute layers
• Deep involvement in Linux kernel filesystem internals and I/O stack
• Optimize performance across: VFS layer page cache block layer Networking stack (TCP/IP RDMA) Debug kernel-level issues (panic memory leaks I/O bottlenecks).
• Design and implement: Replication erasure coding Consensus protocols (Raft/Paxos) Metadata management systems Ensure strong/ eventual consistency models
• Analyze and improve system performance (latency throughput IOPS)
• Conduct benchmarking and capacity planning
• Optimize for large-scale deployments (PB-scale storage)
• Build systems for fault detection recovery and self-healing
• Implement observability:
• Metrics
• Tracing
• Logging
• Root cause analysis of production issues

Who you are

• Bachelors degree required.
• 8 years of experience in systems engineering.
• Strong expertise in : Linux kernel internals Filesystems (ext4 XFS btrfs ZFS concepts) Distributed storage systems (Ceph HDFS GlusterFS Lustre).
• Deep understanding of Memory management Concurrency and synchronization Networking protocols
• Debugging & Tools : perf ftrace eBPF gdb System profiling and tracing tools Crash dump analysis
• Strong problem-solving mindset
• Ability to lead without authority
• Excellent communication with cross-functional teams
• Defines storage architecture used by millions of users
• Drives performance improvements at infrastructure level
• Security and SaaS experience strongly preferred.

Youll love working here because:

• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development product training and career pathing
• Annual health check-ups Car lease Program and Tuition Reimbursement
• An inclusive company culture an opportunity to join our Community Guilds
• Personal accident cover and Term life cover

Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault Apply now!