Member of Technical Staff, Kernel

Bangalore, India. Posted 3 months ago

The role

You will lead a group of engineers responsible for Linux and VMWare initiator stack behavior and Fibre Channel and NIC drivers on Pure storage array. The role involves developing and maintaining storage area network protocols, Linux kernels, and drivers.

What you will do

Lead a group of engineers for Linux and VMWare initiator stack behavior and Fibre Channel and NIC drivers
Develop and fix Linux initiator stack software
Debug initiator problems and create compatibility documents for Purity
Debug VMWare initiator issues and create compatibility documentation
Maintain Linux kernels for internal testing
Document supported configurations for customers
Evaluate and optimize Linux initiator behavior for Pure Storage Flasharray
Contribute bug fixes and enhancements to Linux upstream
Maintain Purity’s Fibre Channel SCSI (FCP) target driver
Maintain NIC drivers on Pure’s storage systems

Required qualifications

Strong experience writing device drivers and/or kernel development for Linux/Unix
Minimum 5 years of development experience
Experience designing and implementing significant components in storage protocol stacks and storage systems
Experience leading other engineers technically
Experience with performance analysis/optimization for storage systems or protocols
VMWare experience with understanding of their initiator stack
Experience writing Linux storage device drivers, including some sets of Fibre Channel, NVME, ROCE, block and multipath modules
Experience debugging difficult storage attach issues
Software development using C and C++, along with Python
Experience developing test automation
Experience analyzing and optimizing storage performance
Demonstrated experience debugging difficult protocol/kernel/system issues

Nice to have

Experience in storage and/or networking drivers
Experience with storage protocols: either SCSI (FC-SCSI or iSCSI/FCP) and/or NVME Fabrics (NVME/ROCE, NVME/TCP or NVME/FC)
Experience upstreaming Linux code
Writing storage or networking device drivers, preferred in Linux/Unix environment

Benefits

Flexible time off
Wellness resources
Company-sponsored team events

About the company

Everpure (NYSE: P) has evolved from storage pioneer to data platform. The company's strategic agenda spans hyperscalers, AI labs, the AI hardware supply chain, data platform providers, and the broader AI ecosystem.