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Software Senior Principal Engineer

Dell provides the technology that transforms the way we all work and live. But we are more than a technology company — we are a people company. We inspire, challenge and respect every one of our over 100,000 employees. We also provide them with unparalleled growth and development opportunities. The products will cover a wide range of Dell/EMC products and applications and we are looking for senior level engineers to drive product development, enhancements, performance, scaling, and defect resolution.  The additional responsibilities will include the ownership and resolution of triage the issues, address the software defects, drive software defects in other components to resolution, and work collaboratively across departments for a successful development, release, and support of integrated solutions.

What you will achieve

Responsibilities include developing new features for the Data Domain product offering as well as enhancing the product set to improve scaling, performance, high-availability, cloud integration, disaster recovery, and application integration. As part of the project responsibilities, you may also be developing test automation and automation framework modules and work collaboratively across Dell divisions to coordinate feature integration and product delivery

We can’t wait for you to discover this for yourself as a Senior/Principal Software Engineer on our Data Domain Engineering team in Santa Clara.

You will:

  • Scaleout and scale up support in virtual/physical distributed environment

  • Optimization and Performance (I/O and control path)

  • Analysis and Improving system performance

  • Encryption and security

  • Collaboration with Engineering Leadership, Product Management and Customers to troubleshoot and solve complex problems/Develop and review unit test procedures and work closely with QA to develop system integration test plans

Essential Requirements

  • BS in Computer Science or related technical field with minimum 10 years of relevant work experience in UNIX/Linux/ POSIX based systems software development

  • Excellent knowledge of developing system software using C and C++

  • Solid understanding of Data Structures, memory management, algorithms, locking, design patterns, concurrency models, multithreading, parallel programming and asynchronous concepts

  • Knowledge of distributed software systems, operating systems, file systems or embedded software

  • Knowledge of storage networking protocols, connectivity, and architectures

Desirable Requirements

  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills

Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.  The base salary range for this position:  $220,000 to $280,000

Benefits and Perks of working at Dell Technologies

Your life. Your health. Supported by your benefits.  You can explore the overall benefits experience that awaits you as a Dell Technologies team member - right now at MyWellatDell.com

Who we are

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact. That’s why we put our team members at the center of everything we do. If you’re looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we’re looking for you.

Dell Technologies is a unique family of businesses that helps individuals and organizations transform how they work, live and play. Join us to build a future that works for everyone because Progress Takes All of Us.


Dell Technologies is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. Read the full Equal Employment Opportunity Policy here.

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