Senior Software Engineer - Data Path
Job Description
Position Overview
Pivot3 is the leading provider of intelligent hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) solutions for video surveillance, video analytics, VDI and mixed workloads. Pivot3’s solutions provide security, resilience and management simplicity at scale for customers’ mission-critical environments. With thousands of customers in 64 countries, and deployments across education, hospitality, transportation, government, defense, healthcare, gaming, financial services and retail, Pivot3 is a fast-growing company recognized by Gartner and Forrester as a key HCI vendor, offering significant opportunities for career growth and the chance to make a real impact on shaping the future of the business.
We are actively recruiting for a Data Path Software Engineer to join our Engineering team. In this role, you will work closely with Product Management, Quality Engineering, and Software Engineering to advance our data path technologies, performance, and capability.
Key Responsibilities
- Contribute to the design and architecture of new or re-engineered software in our core areas of distributed computing and high-performance storage.
- Collaborate on and implement architecture recommendations surrounding performance, resiliency, preventive maintenance, and high availability.
- Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks and make performance-related recommendations (hardware, software, configuration).
- Design and develop major functional or performance enhancements for existing products, or produce new software products or tools.
- Work closely with Quality Engineering, Product Management, and other Engineering teams.
- Develop, test, and integrate code for new or existing software of significant complexity.
- Promote and participate in design discussions, efficient code and collaborative code reviews.
- Provide sustaining or maintenance support to the existing software environment, either by direct implementation or by guiding junior engineers.
Required Qualifications
- B.S. in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or equivalent is strongly preferred.
- 8 - 10 years of experience in a Software Engineer or Senior Software Engineer capacity.
- Proven and demonstrable experience with C/C++.
- Strong understanding of storage protocols (iSCSI, SAS/SATA, PCIe) is a big plus.
- Experience working with Jenkins or similar CI tools.
- Experience integrating with VMware is a plus.
- Experience with Agile methodologies is strongly preferred.
- Proficiency with IP networking in a Linux environment.
- Good understanding of performance monitoring and hardware limitations of enterprise-level servers.
- Assertive communication skills and the ability to influence cross-functional stakeholders to make the best decisions for the company and its clients.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills are a must.
Equal Opportunity Employer: Pivot3 is an equal opportunity employer. All candidates will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
Staffing/Recruiting/Placement Firms: Pivot3 will not accept candidate referrals for this posting and is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes.