Senior Lead, Software Engineering - Development

Who We Are

At Kyndryl, we design, build, manage and modernize the mission-critical technology systems that the world depends on every day. So why work at Kyndryl? We are always moving forward – always pushing ourselves to go further in our efforts to build a more equitable, inclusive world for our employees, our customers and our communities.

The Role

The Storage Team at Skytap by Kyndryl is seeking a Senior Lead Software Engineer to help build and maintain our software-defined storage infrastructure.  

Come help us develop storage at scale! We use Python-based containerized services to manage storage for millions of created VMs across many data centers and multiple operating systems, hypervisors, and even architectures. Our ZFS installation is one of the largest that exists, our systems have great uptime, our team communicates well, we use or invent the right tools for the job, and we occasionally do things nobody else in the world is doing. 

This position is for a Python programmer who is passionate about designing, deploying, and maintaining an evolving and unique platform. You’ll be working with a strong team of experienced engineers to ensure our global storage footprint is running efficiently, securely, and with all the features our customers depend on. You’ll be responsible for figuring out how to build new features and how to improve existing systems to meet the complex needs of our customers. 

Responsibilities will include: 

• Writing elegant, maintainable Python code

• Developing and maintaining our Production software and servers

• Sharing a reasonable on-call rotation with the team

• Bug fixes related to nightly build failures

• Developing and operating Ansible and Puppet automations

• Remediate issues occurring in Integration and Test stack

• Updates across the code base to meet compliance objectives

• Code reviews for projects ongoing across the team

• Assisting team by writing smaller units of code for larger projects

• Modernizing legacy scripts for higher security and easier maintainability

• Improving the CI/CD pipelines we use to test changes to storage services 

• Building more feature flags or other process improvements into our release pipeline

• Identifying, tracking, and remediating bugs observed by our monitoring stack

• Creating and improving capacity management modeling and tools

• Automating away manual processes   

Kyndryl currently does not require employees to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19, however, if you are hired to work at a client, customer, or partner location, you may be required to show proof of vaccination to align with their respective COVID-19 vaccination policies.  Those who believe they are eligible may apply for a medical or religious accommodation prior to the start of employment.

Who You Are

Required Skills:

• Strong Linux background, including system architectures, network infrastructures, and client-server principles

• Experience designing and implementing complex distributed systems

• Experience working with provisioning and deployment frameworks at scale 

• Knowledge of concurrency control, data structures, algorithms, and scale-out software architectures 

• Experience designing and implementing complex database systems and transaction management 

• Skill in analyzing, measuring, and optimizing scalability and performance

• Experience with ZFS, iSCSI, multipathing, or other storage technologies 

Bonus Skills:

• Linux system administration 

• Experience working with virtualization and containers (e.g. VMware, Kubernetes)

• Experience working with message-brokers, AMQP, RabbitMQ. 

• Solid understanding of low-level Unix systems concepts

• Broad knowledge of multiple technologies: servers, storage, virtualization hardware, network, observability (Zabbix, Grafana, InfluxDB, ELK or TICK stacks), cloud services.

• A focus on security at the enterprise level, practical experience with SSO, TLS, LDAP, PAM, Hashicorp Vault, encryption, authentication, authorization and maintaining PCI DSS / ISO / SOC2 compliance 

• Familiarity with configuration management (Puppet, Ansible, Capistrano)

• Knowledge of the IBM Power architecture (VIOS, PowerVM, AIX, IBM i) 

• Experience working with Azure or Softlayer

The compensation range for the position in the U.S. is $107,400 to $204,000 based on a full-time schedule. Your actual compensation may vary depending on your geography, job-related skills and experience. For part time roles, the compensation will be adjusted appropriately. The pay or salary range will not be below any applicable state, city or local minimum wage requirement. There is a different applicable compensation range for the following work locations: 

California:$118,200 to $244,920 

Colorado: $107,400 to $204,000 

New York City: $128,880 to $244,920 

Washington: $118,200 to $224,520 

Washington DC:$118,200 to $224,520 

This position will be eligible for Kyndryl’s discretionary annual bonus program, based on performance and subject to the terms of Kyndryl’s applicable plans. You may also receive a comprehensive benefits package which includes medical and dental coverage, disability, retirement benefits, paid leave, and paid time off. Note: If this is a sales commission eligible role, you will be eligible to participate in a sales commission plan in lieu of the annual discretionary bonus program. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis.

Your Future at Kyndryl
Every position at Kyndryl offers a way forward to grow your career. We have opportunities that you won’t find anywhere else, including hands-on experience, learning opportunities, and the chance to certify in all four major platforms. Whether you want to broaden your knowledge base or narrow your scope and specialize in a specific sector, you can find your opportunity here.

Being You

Diversity is a whole lot more than what we look like or where we come from, it’s how we think and who we are. We welcome people of all cultures, backgrounds, and experiences. But we’re not doing it single-handily: Our Kyndryl Inclusion Networks are only one of many ways we create a workplace where all Kyndryls can find and provide support and advice. This dedication to welcoming everyone into our company means that Kyndryl gives you – and everyone next to you – the ability to bring your whole self to work, individually and collectively, and support the activation of our equitable culture. That’s the Kyndryl Way.

What You Can Expect

With state-of-the-art resources and Fortune 100 clients, every day is an opportunity to innovate, build new capabilities, new relationships, new processes, and new value. Kyndryl cares about your well-being and prides itself on offering benefits that give you choice, reflect the diversity of our employees and support you and your family through the moments that matter – wherever you are in your life journey. Our employee learning programs give you access to the best learning in the industry to receive certifications, including Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Skillsoft, and many more. Through our company-wide volunteering and giving platform, you can donate, start fundraisers, volunteer, and search over 2 million non-profit organizations. At Kyndryl, we invest heavily in you, we want you to succeed so that together, we will all succeed.

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