Staff Software Engineer (C/Kernel/System Programming)

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Bangalore, Karnataka, IN Until 8/23/2026 12+ years exp First posted June 9, 2026 Last posted June 9, 2026
Job description

Job Summary

As a Senior Engineer, your responsibilities will include developing and maintaining Software defined Storage solutions. You will focus on solving complex problems, developing, testing, automating and collaborating with the Software Engineering team to deploy features in a production environment. Additionally, you will be responsible for designing and implementing managed Cloud Services based on given requirements. We expect you to have excellent coding skills and take a lead role in designing and implementing managed Cloud Services.

Prior experience in Filesystems would be an added advantage, and you should also have the ability to quickly learn existing code and architecture.

Job Requirements

  • Lead to deliver features, including participating in the full software development lifecycle.
  • Participate in product design, development, verification, troubleshooting, and delivery of a system or major subsystems, including authoring project specifications.
  • Excellent Problem solver, proficient coder and a designer.
  • Thorough understanding and extensive experience with Block/File technologies having hands-on experience in designing and developing software solutions.
  • Proficient with any of the languages C, C++, and good to have Python.
  • Strong in Data Structure and algorithms.
  • System/Kernel programming, Experience with Filesystems or Networking or file/cloud protocols is a must.
  • Experience with ONTAP or similar storage operating systems 
  • Familiarity with agile software development practices 
  • Continuously monitor, analyse, and measure system health, availability, and latency using native tooling. Develop and implement steps to improve system and application performance, availability, and reliability.
  • Knowledge of infrastructure like hypervisor, Cloud Storage and experience with cloud services including Databases, Caching, Object and Block Storage, Scaling, Monitoring, Load Balancers etc. is added advantage.
  • Mentor junior members, participate in interviews, and contribute to building high-performance teams.
  • Work on development, bug fixes/updates, spec updates, customer RCAs and automation.
  • Strong oral and written communication skills.
  • Engage in incident management processes to resolve production issues within agreed SLAs/SLOs.

Education

  • B.E/B.Tech or M.S in Computer Science or related technical field
  • 12+ years of experience and must be hands-on with coding
About this role

Summary

Develops storage, filesystem, and kernel software; leads design, coding, and troubleshooting efforts.

Job title

Staff Software Engineer (C/Kernel/System Programming)

Experience level

12+ years

Minimum experience

12+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Bangalore, India, on-site; remote not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

CC++block/file technologiessystem/kernel programmingfilesystemsnetworkingcloud servicesdata structuresalgorithms

Preferred skills

pythonONTAPcloud storagehypervisormonitoringautomation

Specializations

kernelfilesystemcloud servicesstorage solutionssystem programming
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

On-site City