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Engineering Research & Development Software Principal Engineer-Datapath Bengaluru, India

at Dell Technologies

Onsite Posted April 05, 2026
Type Not Specified
Experience senior
Exp. Years Not specified
Education Not Specified
Category Software Engineering

Dell Technologies seeks a Software Principal Engineer for the Datapath team in Bengaluru to design and build next-generation AI data platform storage. You will own end-to-end design across a distributed storage cluster, optimize performance, and contribute to a high-velocity engineering organization.

  • Design and build next-generation AI data platform storage (mission-critical components)
  • Own end-to-end design across cluster storage system
  • Build and harden distributed services: durability, consistency, replication, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, lifecycle management
  • Optimize performance across computer, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA) and storage media
  • Drive latency and throughput improvements

Role focuses on enterprise-grade distributed storage technologies, with emphasis on Linux/BSD environments, RDMA networking, NVMe/SSD/HDD storage media, and object storage (Amazon S3/S3). Involves building hardening of distributed services, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, and lifecycle management.

The ideal candidate is a senior software principal engineer with deep experience building distributed storage systems, comfortable operating in a Linux/BSD environment, and strong knowledge of high-performance storage hardware and data paths.

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distributed storage systemsdata pathsmetadatacontrol planesschedulingplacementlifecycle managementLinuxBSDRDMANVMeSSDHDDAmazon Web ServicesS3object storagecluster storagedistributed systems
LinuxBSDRDMANVMeSSDHDDAmazon Web ServicesS3Object storageCluster storageDistributed systemsData pathsMetadataControl planesSchedulingPlacementLifecycle management
communicationleadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingteamworkanalytical thinking
Industry SaaS
Job Function Develop and optimize enterprise-grade distributed storage software as part of Dell's datapath team
Role Subtype Principal Software Engineer
Tech Domains Linux, Amazon Web Services, Cluster storage, Distributed systems, S3
Software Principal EngineerDatapathBengaluruLinuxBSDRDMANVMeSSDHDDAmazon Web ServicesS3Object storageCluster storageDistributed systemsdata pathsmetadatacontrol planesschedulingplacement

No distributed storage systems experience, No Linux or BSD experience, Not willing to work onsite in Bengaluru

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