Software Principal Engineer

Principal Software Engineer

Unstructured Data Storage group delivers two core solutions of the Dell AI Platform - PowerScale and ObjectScale, providing AI-ready storage for the world's most data intensive challenges.

We are looking for talented professionals to join our Software Engineering Team and help shape the future of storage.

Join us as a Principal Software Engineer on our team in Cork to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

What you'll achieve

In UDS we build enterprise-grade, massively scalable storage systems - clustered, high-performance, and resilient.

Our portfolio includes a multi-petabyte S3 object store and a scale-out NAS platform.

We're a modern, scrum-based engineering org that ships with high velocity and quality, using the best tools, hardware and development practices.

As a Principal Software Engineer you will work on innovative solutions using new and current technologies.

You will work as part of a scrum team to design and implement capabilities, often spanning multiple components.

You will:



* Work on all aspects of software development life cycle: planning, requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and maintenance.


* Collaborate with product owners, architects and other engineers to define and implement technical solutions


* Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback


* Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues across the stack


* Coach and mentor more junior team members

Take the first step towards your dream career Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table.

Here's what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements



* Exceptional programming skills with 8+ years of related experience, preferably in C, C++, Java or Python


* Experience in filesystem/ distributed systems


* Excellent analytical debugging & problem solving skills


* Demonstrable use of observability, diagnostics and operational tooling


* Strong leadership, teamwork and communication skills to effectively lead a scrum team and collaborate effectively in a global Agile/Scrum environment

Desirable Requirements



* Experience in performance engineering/SRE


* Familiarity with systems/storage including protocol behaviour (NFS/SMB/S3), networking, kernel/filesystem queues, caching


* Ability to use ML/AI for anomaly detection, pattern matching, RAG over use case history, agent orchestration

Who we are

We believe that each of us has the power to make an impact.

That's why we put our team members at the center of everything we do.

If you're looking for an opportunity to grow your career with some of the best minds and most advanced tech in the industry, we're looking for you.

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