Senior Software Engineer (Hardware, Networking & Storage)

About the Position

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in hardware, networking, and storage to lead our engineering organization's technical vision and strategy. This role carries organizational influence: your technical judgment sets direction that other senior engineers and teams align to.

Responsibilities

• Define and own the multi-year technical roadmap for on-prem platform architecture, balancing performance, reliability, cost, and manufacturability.
• Make and defend high-stakes architectural trade-offs with org-wide impact, and be accountable for their long-term consequences.
• Identify emerging technologies (hardware, protocols, AI-driven tooling) worth betting on, and build the case to adopt them org-wide.
• Act as a recognized leader in applying AI/GenAI across engineering, setting the strategy, standards, and best practices for how the org adopts them.
• Drive architecture decisions for LLM/GenAI-powered systems: RAG pipelines, agentic automation, model evaluation frameworks, and prompt/response reliability at scale.
• Evangelize and mentor other engineers and lead on applied AI running reviews, setting guardrails (accuracy, cost, data privacy), and identifying where AI should and shouldn't be used.
• Represent the org's AI engineering direction to senior leadership and, where relevant, external technical communities.
• Provide authoritative, protocol-level expertise across networking, capable of driving architecture decisions and resolving the org's hardest network-layer issues.
• Own architectural decisions across storage and hardware interfaces, including performance tuning, failure analysis, and next-generation platform design.
• Set the automation strategy and standards for the broader team determining what should be automated, how, and to what reliability bar.
• Maintain expert, hands-on fluency in Python, C, and C++, using it to prototype and validate architectural decisions directly, not only to review them.
• Mentor senior and staff-level engineers, shaping how they grow technically and how they approach ambiguous problems.
• Run and set the bar for architecture reviews across multiple teams, not just design/code review within one.
• Align software, firmware, hardware, and manufacturing organizations around shared technical direction, resolving cross-org technical disagreements.
• Represent the company's technical position in customer escalations, partner discussions, or industry forums as needed.
• Own the technical narrative for the platform architecture docs, technical roadmaps, and strategic planning inputs to leadership.

Requirements

• AI/GenAI
• TCP/IP network stack
• Computer networks
• NFS, SMB, iSCSI, FC
• Linux, Unix OS internals
• FreeBSD
• OS booting process
• BIOS/UEFI, GRUB bootloaders
• NAS, SAN
• NVMe technologies, NVMeOF
• PCIe, Ethernet interfaces
• RAID, SSDs
• IOM design
• Python
• C
• C++

Education

• Typically requires a minimum of 10 years of related experience.

About the Company

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