Member of Technical Staff 4/3 (C++ + Linux + Sustenance+Development )4-10yrs

Nutanix
Nutanix

IT

Bengaluru, Karnataka, India

Posted on Aug 24, 2026

Hungry, Humble, Honest, with Heart.

The Opportunity

Nutanix is transforming enterprise data protection by combining its industry-leading infrastructure technologies with modern cloud-native approaches to deliver a best-in-class data management and protection platform. The Cloud Data Protection (CDP) team is building solutions that help customers protect, manage, and recover their critical workloads across on-premises and cloud environments.

You will join an impactful, fast-moving Cloud Data Protection team and play a crucial role in resolving complex, escalated customer issues as a Sustaining Engineer. As a Member Technical Staff – DevEx (CDP) at Nutanix, you will be a vital part of our mission to maintain Nutanix’s high industry standard NPS (Net Promoter Score) by providing excellent engineering assistance alongside our Support organization to our valued customers.

What makes this role particularly interesting and unique is the opportunity to troubleshoot and solve complex customer problems across data protection, backup, recovery, replication, disaster recovery, and distributed systems, while gaining deep exposure to the core CDP product and its underlying technologies. You will collaborate closely with Engineering, Support, and other cross-functional teams to identify root causes, drive product improvements, and deliver reliable solutions for our customers.

About the Team
The Dev-Extension team (“DevEx” for short) at Nutanix is a 70+ person team located primarily in the US and India. They play a crucial role in maintaining a high NPS score by solving and root causing challenging customer problems at a code level. The entire company admires their successes, and they have been often recognized in multiple R&D All Hands. What sets them apart is their commitment to sustaining engineering and their ability to address customer issues efficiently and holistically.
Your Role
  • Work as a part of the extended software development team on Software Features/Bugs
  • Address Customer Escalations to Engineering
  • Diagnose and debug deep and insidious issues. Provide workaround and fixes for those issues
  • Develop automation tools to find bottlenecks and do root cause analysis and corrective action
  • Engage with customers and support when needed to solve production issues
  • Develop a deep understanding of complex distributed systems, and design innovative solutions for customer requirements
  • Design and develop tools to improve debuggability of the product and enhance serviceability
  • Work closely with SW Development, QA, Documentation and Product Management teams apart from other DevEx teams to deliver high-quality products in a fast-paced environment
  • Program in Linux environment and employ robust software engineering practices to develop and maintain reliable, field-serviceable, and maintainable software components
What You Will Bring
  • Bachelor’s in Computer Science with 4+ yrs of industry experience OR Master’s in Computer Science
  • Love of programming and rock-solid experience in one or more languages: C, C++, Python or Golang, ideally for enterprise-quality software
  • Extensive knowledge of UNIX/Linux or expertise in Windows
  • Development experience in file systems, operating systems, hypervisors, networking, distributed systems management
  • Experience working with virtualization technologies like Linux KVM, VMware, Hyper-V, Xen (KVM and VMware preferred)
  • Knowledge of building micro-service-based applications.
  • Familiarity with OS internals, concepts of distributed data management, and design/implementation tradeoffs in building clustered, high- performance, fault-tolerant distributed systems software
  • Strong written, verbal, and collaboration skills
  • Team player that works well in fast-paced situations and startup environments
Good to have
  • Working knowledge of Data Protection technologies like Disaster Recovery and Backup.
  • Experience developing software for containerized platforms like Kubernetes.
  • Experience with working with applications within hyperscalers including AWS, Azure or GCP.
  • Good understanding of Kubernetes Custom Resource and controller development.
  • Good understanding of Cloud Native Storage technologies, including Disaster Recovery and Backup.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. In locations where our workplace policy applies (i.e. San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), employees are expected to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week to foster collaboration, team alignment, and access to in-office resources. Workplace type may vary based on location and team requirements. Please speak with your recruiter for details. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.

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