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Senior Software Engineer - Data Protection Software Engineering (C, C++)

Dell, Inc.
Santa Clara, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 7/6/2026
AVAILABLE BEFORE 7/29/2026
Job Description

Senior Software Engineer - Data Protection Software Engineering (C, C )

What you'll achieve

The Data Protection Software Engineering team delivers next-generation cyber resiliency, data protection, and data availability solutions for enterprises operating across on-premises, hybrid cloud, and public cloud environments.

As a Senior Software Engineer, you will play a key role in designing and delivering features that powers Dell's Data Protection portfolio. You will independently drive complex feature development, lead technical design discussions, influence architectural direction, and mentor engineers while helping accelerate Dell's AI-powered software transformation.

This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems, control path and data path development for scalable and performance critical solutions.

Responsibilities

You will
  • Lead the design and development of highly performant services and distributed systems supporting Dell's Data Protection portfolio, lead design reviews and code reviews while championing engineering excellence and software craftsmanship
  • Independently drive complex features and projects from concept, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and production support, define service contracts, API standards, scalability strategies, resiliency mechanisms, and operational excellence practices
  • Partner with architects and product management to translate business objectives into technical solutions and engineering roadmaps, drive improvements in reliability, observability, automation, performance, scalability, and developer productivity
  • Troubleshoot and resolve highly complex production issues spanning multiple services, environments, and technology stacks, champion AI-assisted development, agentic engineering practices, and intelligent automation across the software development lifecycle
  • Act as a technical leader and owner who balances innovation, execution, customer value, and operational excellence, mentor and coach junior engineers, helping raise technical capability and delivery effectiveness across the team


Qualifications

Essential Requirements
  • 7 years of software development experience, strong expertise in C/C , Java or Golang for data path and/or control path services development
  • Proven experience building and operating large-scale control path or data path services and distributed systems, proven track record of technical leadership, mentoring, and coaching engineers
  • Strong understanding of virtualized workloads and containerized workloads, strong expertise in debugging, performance optimization, root-cause analysis, and production issue resolution
  • Expertise with virtualization technologies including VMware vSphere, Hyper-V, OpenStack, and Kubernetes ecosystems, experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, observability platforms, and software delivery automation
  • Demonstrated ability to independently drive features and complex engineering initiatives with minimal supervision, proficiency with AI-assisted engineering tools and modern AI-enabled software development practices
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills


Preferred Requirements
  • Experience in Data Protection, Cyber Recovery, Storage, Backup & Recovery, or Enterprise Infrastructure Software, experience developing software across public cloud, hybrid cloud, and on-premises environments., experience with messaging and streaming technologies such as RabbitMQ, or similar platforms
  • Knowledge of AI/ML systems, GenAI applications, Agentic AI frameworks, and intelligent automation platforms, experience influencing architecture and technical strategy across multiple teams


Compensation

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices. The salary range for this position is $161k - $222k.

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Salary : $161,000 - $222,000

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