Job Title - Senior Developer – Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform

Job Location - Pune, Maharashtra

The Opportunity

Our client has an outstanding career opportunity for Senior Developer - Distributed File Systems and Linux Platform at Pune, Hyderabad and Bangalore locations. As a Senior Engineer you will design, and performance optimization of large-scale distributed storage/file systems on Linux platforms. This role requires deep expertise in kernel internals, storage stacks, and distributed systems at scale.

What you’ll do…

- Design of scalable, fault-tolerant distributed file systems (e.g., object/block/file storage)
- Define system architecture for high availability, consistency, and performance
- Drive design decisions across storage, networking, and compute layers
- Deep involvement in Linux kernel, filesystem internals, and I/O stack
- Optimize performance across: VFS layer, page cache, block layer, Networking stack (TCP/IP, RDMA), Debug kernel-level issues (panic, memory leaks, I/O bottlenecks).
- Design and implement: Replication, erasure coding, Consensus protocols (Raft/Paxos), Metadata management systems, Ensure strong/ eventual consistency models
- Analyze and improve system performance (latency, throughput, IOPS)
- Conduct benchmarking and capacity planning
- Optimize for large-scale deployments (PB-scale storage)




- Build systems for fault detection, recovery, and self-healing
- Implement observability:
- Metrics
- Tracing
- Logging
- Root cause analysis of production issues

Who you are…

- Bachelor's degree required.
- 3+ years of experience in systems engineering.
- Strong expertise in : Linux kernel internals, Filesystems (ext4, XFS, btrfs, ZFS concepts), Distributed storage systems (Ceph, HDFS, GlusterFS, Lustre).
- Deep understanding of Memory management, Concurrency and synchronization, Networking protocols
- Debugging & Tools : perf, ftrace, eBPF, gdb, System profiling and tracing tools, Crash dump analysis
- Strong problem-solving mindset
- Ability to lead without authority
- Excellent communication with cross-functional teams
- Defines storage architecture used by millions of users
- Drives performance improvements at infrastructure level
- Security and SaaS experience strongly preferred.

You’ll love working here because:

- Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
- Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
- Annual health check-ups, Car lease Program, and Tuition Reimbursement
- An inclusive company culture, an chance to join our Community Guilds
- Personal accident cover and Term life cover

📌 Senior Developer– Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform (Pune)
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