Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Platform9 develops private cloud infrastructure designed to simplify enterprise IT operations. The Engineering Lead will own the design, development, delivery, and leadership of backup and disaster recovery capabilities, including backup, restore, replication, and continuous data protection, while mentoring a team and addressing complex distributed-systems challenges.
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and own core Back up & DR features spanning backup, restore, replication/CDP, and management features for PCD environments
- Drive engineering decisions to meet the business objectives including performance, reliability, cost, platform compatibility
- Architect and build storage-driver interface for various storage vendors, ensuring consistency, integrity, and recoverability of data across failure scenarios
- Architect and build storage independent replication technology for consistency, integrity, performance recoverability across data centers
- Lead and mentor a team of engineers, QA, UI and UX, providing technical direction, SDLC, code/design reviews, and career guidance
- Collaborate with Product and Support teams to define requirements, validate scenarios, troubleshoot production issues and train the involved parties
- Drive root-cause analysis for failures and lead the resolution of complex, distributed-systems issues
- Contribute to architecture and roadmap discussions for the storage and data protection stack
- Establish and enforce engineering best practices testing, automation, documentation, and operational readiness
Skills
- 8+ years of software/systems engineering experience, with a significant portion focused on Disaster Recovery, Backup, Restore, or Replication technologies
- Prior experience leading or mentoring a team, even informally (tech lead, module owner, etc.)
- Strong understanding of storage stack including FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD, RPO/RTO concepts and trade-offs in real-world architectures
- Hands-on experience with Continuous Data Protection (CDP), snapshot-based or log-based replication, and storage systems (block, file, or object)
- Solid background in systems-level software development — strong coding skills in one or more of: Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, or Python
- Experience working with distributed systems, storage stacks, or virtualization/cloud infrastructure
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex, data-critical, low-tolerance-for-error systems
- Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with Product and Support teams
- Direct experience with enterprise DR/backup platforms
- Exposure to CDP-based DR-as-a-service offerings (e.g., VMware Site Recovery Manager , HPE Zerto Software) with an understanding of how RPO/RTO targets are engineered into orchestrated failover pipelines
- Familiarity with backup-target/appliance architectures (e.g.VMware SRM, Site REcovery Manager) and how they integrate into a broader data-protection stack
- Exposure to hypervisor or hyperconverged infrastructure environments
- Experience with public cloud DR/replication services (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- Familiarity with storage protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD) or software-defined storage
Benefits
- Equity
- Medical Healthcare for you and your family
- Hybrid Work Model
- Wellness Benefits
- Professional Development/Global certifications
- Reward and Recognition Programs
- Team Building Activities
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