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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 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.
- 8+ 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 opportunity to join our Community Guilds
- Personal accident cover and Term life cover
Ready to #makeyourmark at Commvault? Apply now!
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