Senior, Principal Software Engineer

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation software application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics - all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Software Senior Principal Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Pune.

What you'll achieve

Dell's Unstructured Data Solutions (UDS) business focuses on helping organizations manage, store, protect, and extract value from the rapidly growing volume of unstructured data-such as files, images, videos, logs, and sensor data. Unstructured data represents nearly 90% of annual data production, growing at an extremely fast rate, making scalable and efficient solutions essential.

Dell UDS also provides advanced capabilities for AI workloads, metadata management, and data discovery through open architectures such as the Dell Data Lakehouse and enhanced metadata search via Elasticsearch integration, enabling organizations to analyze billions of files efficiently

As a Software Senior Principal Engineer, you will be responsible for developing sophisticated systems and software basis the customer's business goals, needs and general business environment creating software solutions.

We build enterprise-grade, massively scalable storage systems-clustered, high-performance, and resilient-running across Linux and BSD. Our portfolio includes a multi-petabyte S3 object store and a scale-out NAS platform. We're a modern, scrum-based engineering org that ships with high velocity and quality, using the best tools, hardware, and practices.

You Will:

• Design and build next-generation AI data platform storage - mission-critical components powering our AI strategy-giving you the opportunity to tackle state-of-the-art problems in scale, performance, and reliability.
• Own problems end-to-end across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and supportability-within a cluster storage system.
• Build and harden distributed services: durability, consistency, replication, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, and lifecycle management.
• Optimize performance across computer, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD/AFA); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling and advance reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability.
• Collaborate in scrum teams; write clear design docs, PRDs, and RFCs; perform code reviews and mentor peers. Raise product quality via automated tests, CI/CD pipelines, build hygiene, and release engineering & Contribute to security & compliance (TLS, authN/Z, crypto, FIPS, STIG/NIST best practices) and secure-by-default engineering.

Take the first step towards your dream career
Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here's what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

• 13+ years of experience in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance).
• Proficiency in at least one of C/C++ or Java and Python (good to have); willingness to learn across the stack.
• Experience with Linux or BSD development and debugging (e.g., performance, strace/dtrace/eBPF, tcpdump) and ability to write clean, testable code; familiarity with unit/integration/system testing and CI/CD.
• Technical leadership expertise of building and growing high-performing engineering teams, mentoring senior engineers, and setting technical direction for critical AI data platform storage systems.
• Must have proven experience setting technical direction and cross-product architecture, delivering high-impact performance and reliability improvements, and raising the company-wide engineering bar through mentorship, clear communication, collaboration, and a bias for action.

Desirable Requirements

• Systems & Performance Engineering: Expertise in kernel subsystems, device drivers, firmware; RDMA/verbs; SPDK/DPDK; JVM tuning and GC; async/reactive patterns; lock-free/concurrent data structures; filesystem internals (NFS/SMB, S3 object store, erasure coding); observability stacks, performance profiling at scale, and chaos/failure injection.
• Security & Cloud Platforms: Skilled in security and cryptography (FIPS/CC compliance), secure boot, TPM, HSM integrations; experienced with private and public cloud environments including Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), and Amazon Web Services (AWS) & exposure or usage of AI tools to build code/design is big plus.