Commvault
cyber resilience
SeniorEngineer
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“Senior Engineer at Commvault. Skills: Distributed File Systems, Linux Platform, Kernel Internals, Storage Stacks, Distributed Systems at Scale. Design, and performance optimization of large-scale distributed storage/file systems on Linux platforms. Design of scalable, fault-tolerant distributed file systems (e. g. , objectlock/file storage)”
What You'll Achieve.
performance optimization of large-scale distributed storage/file systems; high availability; consistency; performance; lightning-fast recovery; reduce risks; improve governance
Industry & Context.
problem-solving mindset; Root cause analysis of production issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
3+ years of experience in systems engineering, Linux kernel internals, Filesystems (ext4, XFS, btrfs, ZFS concepts), Distributed storage systems (Ceph, HDFS, GlusterFS, Lustre), Memory management, Concurrency and synchronization, Networking protocols, perf, ftrace, eBPF, gdb, System profiling and tracing tools, Crash dump analysis
Nice to Have
Security and SaaS experience
What You'll Do.
and performance optimization of large-scale distributed storage/file systems on Linux platforms
fault-tolerant distributed file systems (e. g.
objectlock/file storage)
Define system architecture for high availability
Drive design decisions across storage
Deep involvement in Linux kernel
Optimize performance across: VFS layer
Networking stack (TCP/IP
Debug kernel-level issues (panic
Design and implement: Replication
Consensus protocols (Raft/Paxos)
Metadata management systems
Ensure strong/ eventual consistency models
Analyze and improve system performance (latency
Conduct benchmarking and capacity planning
Optimize for large-scale deployments (PB-scale storage)
Build systems for fault detection
Implement observability: Metrics
Root cause analysis of production issues
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Excellent communication with cross-functional teams
Communication Scope
Excellent communication with cross-functional teams
Full Job Description
Recruitment Fraud Alert We’ve learned that scammers are impersonating Commvault team members—including HR and leadership—via email or text. These bad actors may conduct fake interviews and ask for personal information, such as your social security number. What to know: Commvault does not conduct interviews by email or text. We will never ask you to submit sensitive documents (including banking information, SSN, etc) before your first day. If you suspect a recruiting scam, please contact us at [email protected] About Commvault Commvault (NASDAQ: CVLT) is the gold standard in cyber resilience. The company empowers customers to uncover, take action, and rapidly recover from cyberattacks – keeping data safe and businesses resilient. The company’s unique AI-powered platform combines best-in-class data protection, exceptional data security, advanced data intelligence, and lightning-fast recovery across any workload or cloud at the lowest TCO. For over 25 years, more than 100,000 organizations and a vast partner ecosystem have relied on Commvault to reduce risks, improve governance, and do more with data. Senior Engineer – Distributed File Systems & Linux Platform The Opportunity We have an outstanding career opportunity for Senior Engineer- 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
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