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# Senior Software Engineer

- **Company:** Dell Technologies Inc.
- **Location:** Seattle, WA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $130,000.0 - $193,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Java (Programming Language), Amazon S3, Unit Testing, C++ (Programming Language), Software Debugging, Linux, Device Drivers, Distributed Systems, Fault Tolerance, Firmware, Python (Programming Language), Remote Direct Memory Access, Software Engineering, Subsystems, System Programming, Tcpdump, Grafana, Concurrency, Peripherals, HybridCloud, System-level Testing, Perf (Linux), Storage Technologies, Information Technology, Data Analytics, Service Stack, Nvme
- **Published:** May 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=034f8bd5565ef226

## About the Role

Do you have experience in Unit testing?, Do you have a Bachelor's degree?, * Strong foundation in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, storage architecture, consistency models, and fault tolerance

 * Proficiency in at least one programming language (C/C++, Java, or Python) with the willingness to learn across the full technology stack
 * Hands-on experience developing and debugging on Linux or BSD systems, using performance and observability tools such as perf, strace/dtrace/eBPF, and tcpdump
 * Demonstrate ability to write clean, testable code, with experience across unit, integration, and system-level testing and CI/CD pipelines

Desirable Requirements

 * Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
 * Deep understanding and knowledge across kernel subsystems, device drivers, and firmware, with hands-on experience in RDMA/verbs and user-space, high-performance I/O frameworks (SPDK, DPDK)

## Description

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation 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.

We build enterprise-grade, massively scalable cluster-based storage systems 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.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior Software Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Seattle, Washington.

What you'll achieve
As a Senior Software Engineer, you will deliver scalable, high-performance storage and systems software that powers secure, highly available private and hybrid cloud solutions for customers.

You will:

 * 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 compute, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling
 * Advance reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability
 * Contribute to security & compliance with secure-by-default engineering

Take the first step towards your dream career
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