Senior Director - Engineering

Chopra Inc.

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Bangalore,India Until 9/22/2026 10+ years exp H-1B sponsor history First posted July 24, 2026 Last posted July 24, 2026
Job description

The Team: Platform and Infrastructure:

Acme is disrupting the multi-billion dollar virtualization market by pioneering the first converged compute& storage virtualization appliance that can incrementally scale out to manage petabytes of data while running tens of thousands of virtual machines. This brings with it new challenges in managing a cluster of distributed systems. Acme is a hypervisor agnostic platform which means that you will be exposed to all the hypervisors in production. Additionally, in this team you will be working with cutting edge hardware and software technologies that will be instrumental in building the data centers of the future. We strive to bring simplicity in data center management and constantly challenge ourselves to make complex systems simple

The Role

● Hire, coach, and grow a high performing talented engineers with diverse skill-sets.
● Collaborate with the geo-distributed team to own and deliver local and global projects end-to-end
● Communicate across functional teams and drive engineering initiatives
● Participate in technical design and drive product direction & strategy
● Love for programming and extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux
● Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, and design implementation tradeoffs in building clustered, high-performance, fault-tolerant distributed  systems software.
Familiarity with x86 architecture, virtualization and/or storage management


Management Responsibilities

● Manage and grow existing 20+ person team, including first line managers
● Refine and grow existing processes
● Drive feature/quality development and software releases

Required Technical Skills

● Experience building a “systems” product (file system, storage system, database, OS, hypervisor,
● Strong experience in one of following programming languages: Python/Perl/C/C++/Java (Python
● Strong experience in Unix, preferably Linux
● Strong experience working with virtualization technologies like VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xen.
● Passion for quality and collaborative teamwork

Qualifications and Experience

● BS/ MS in Computer Science or Engineering
●  10+ Years of experience, 5+ Years of management experience
●  Proven hands-on technical management
●  Experience working in a high growth multinational company environment.

About this role

Summary

Lead and manage a high-performance team building distributed, virtualization, and storage systems.

Job title

Senior Director - Engineering

Experience level

10+ years

Minimum experience

10+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Bangalore, India; remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Visa sponsorship

H-1B sponsor history

Management role

Yes

Skills & keywords

Required skills

programming: Python, Perl, C, C++, JavaUnix/Linuxvirtualization: VMware, Hyper-V, KVM, Xensystem building

Preferred skills

None specified

Specializations

distributed systemsvirtualizationstorageOS internalsx86 architecture
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

On-site City