Role Overview

Nasuni is seeking a Principal Software Engineer to help define and build the next generation of our distributed file data platform. This role sits within the File System team, responsible for the core storage architecture powering Nasuni's cloud-native file platform.

You will provide technical leadership across distributed file system architecture, storage protocols, metadata services, data protection, and Kubernetes-based infrastructure. You will influence long-term platform direction while remaining close enough to the technology to solve some of the most complex systems challenges in enterprise storage.

This role is ideal for engineers who thrive at the intersection of distributed systems, performance engineering, cloud-native infrastructure, and large-scale storage platforms.

This role is not intended for engineers focused primarily on application development, front-end technologies, or isolated feature delivery.

This role is located at Nasuni's Hyderabad Office - Hybrid 3 Days Onsite per week.

Level & Scope Definition

You will:

Own architectural decisions spanning multiple subsystems
Lead technical strategy for distributed storage and file services
Drive platform scalability, resilience, and operational excellence
Influence engineering standards across multiple teams
Mentor senior engineers and technical leaders
Balance long-term architecture investments with near-term delivery goals

Responsibilities

Define architecture and technical direction for Nasuni's distributed file system platform
Lead design and implementation of core storage services including metadata, snapshots, caching, replication, and recovery
Drive evolution of NFS, SMB, and S3 access services
Establish scalability, performance, and reliability standards across the platform
Partner with Platform, Control Plane, Security, and Infrastructure teams on system-wide initiatives
Guide architectural reviews and technical decision-making
Lead resolution of complex production and performance challenges
Improve engineering productivity through automation, observability, and modern development practices
Utilize AI-assisted engineering workflows where appropriate to accelerate development, troubleshooting, analysis, documentation, and testing while maintaining accountability for quality and security
Mentor engineers and contribute to technical talent development

Expected Outcomes & Impact

Improve platform scalability and resilience for enterprise workloads
Influence multi-year architecture decisions across the storage platform
Reduce operational complexity through automation and platform improvements
Accelerate engineering velocity while maintaining reliability standards
Raise technical excellence across the File System organization

Qualifications

Must Have

12+ years of software engineering experience focused on systems programming
Deep expertise in C and C++
Significant experience designing distributed systems at scale
Strong understanding of file system internals, POSIX semantics, VFS, metadata services, and storage architectures
Experience with Kubernetes-based distributed platforms
Experience leading architecture decisions across multiple engineering teams
Experience with NFS, SMB, S3, or related storage protocols
Proven ownership of large-scale technical initiatives from design through production

Preferred

Experience with cloud-native storage platforms
Linux kernel, FUSE, or eBPF experience
Consensus systems and distributed coordination
High availability architectures
Performance engineering and storage benchmarking
Experience mentoring senior engineers and technical leads

Ideal

Experience building enterprise-scale file systems
Contributions to storage, distributed systems, or infrastructure platforms used by large customer environments
Experience establishing engineering standards across organizations
AI workflow optimization experience for software development and platform engineering

Experience Guidelines

10–15+ years total software engineering experience
7+ years in distributed systems, storage, or infrastructure engineering