Senior Software Engineer (Hardware, Networking & Stoarge)

Job Summary

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will serve as a technical leader and org-level authority for on-prem system architecture, setting the multi-year technical vision and strategy across software, firmware, hardware, and manufacturing not just for a single team, but for how the broader engineering organization builds, validates, and scales low-level systems. You will be recognized as a driving force in applying AI/GenAI to engineering practice itself shaping how the org uses AI in design, validation, and automation while also owning the deepest technical bets on storage, networking, and OS architecture. This role carries organizational influence: your technical judgment sets direction that other senior engineers and teams align to.

Job Requirements

• Defines and owns the multi-year technical roadmap for on-prem platform architecture, balancing performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability
• Makes and defends high-stakes architectural trade-offs with org-wide impact, and is accountable for their long-term consequences

• Identifies emerging technologies (hardware, protocols, AI-driven tooling) worth betting on, and builds the case to adopt them org-wide

• Acts as a recognized leader in applying AI/GenAI across engineering not only using GenAI tools, but setting the strategy, standards, and best practices for how the org adopts them
• Drives architecture decisions for LLM/GenAI-powered systems: RAG pipelines, agentic automation, model evaluation frameworks, and prompt/response reliability at scale
• Evangelizes and mentors other engineers and leads on applied AI running reviews, setting guardrails (accuracy, cost, data privacy), and identifying where AI should and shouldn’t be used

• Represents the org’s AI engineering direction to senior leadership and, where relevant, external technical communities

• Authoritative, protocol-level expertise across networking, capable of driving architecture decisions and resolving the org’s hardest network-layer issues
  • TCP/IP network stack
  • Computer networks
  • NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC
• Deep, authoritative command of OS internals sets direction on kernel/OS architecture decisions and is the escalation point for the hardest root-cause investigations
  • Linux, Unix OS internals (Kernel & Networking)
  • FreeBSD and its architecture
  • OS booting process (Linux/Unix)
  • BIOS/UEFI, GRUB bootloaders
• Owns architectural decisions across storage and hardware interfaces, including performance tuning, failure analysis, and next-generation platform design
  • NAS, SAN
  • NVMe technologies, NVMeOF (NVMe over Fabrics) architecture and design trade-offs
  • PCIe, Ethernet interfaces
  • RAID, SSDs
  • IOM (I/O Module) design, shelf/enclosure architecture, and hardware interface integration
• Sets the automation strategy and standards for the broader team determining what should be automated, how, and to what reliability bar
• Maintains expert, hands-on fluency in Python, C, and C++, using it to prototype and validate architectural decisions directly, not only to review them
• Mentors senior and staff-level engineers, shaping how they grow technically and how they approach ambiguous problems
• Runs and sets the bar for architecture reviews across multiple teams, not just design/code review within one
• Aligns software, firmware, hardware, and manufacturing organizations around shared technical direction, resolving cross-org technical disagreements
• Represents the company’s technical position in customer escalations, partner discussions, or industry forums as needed
• Owns the technical narrative for the platform architecture docs, technical roadmaps, and strategic planning inputs to leadership

Education

IC - Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience.Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience.