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Sr. Software Engineer L4

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Hiring Remotely in Office, Machaze, Manica
Senior level
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Hiring Remotely in Office, Machaze, Manica
Senior level
Own complex enterprise and hyperscale customer escalations, perform root-cause analysis, lead incident response, and develop mitigation strategies. Serve as an Infinia storage and distributed-systems expert, reproduce issues, improve product resiliency, and create runbooks and RCA documentation. Partner with engineering, product, field, sales, and executives while applying AI-powered diagnostics, observability, automation, and self-healing mechanisms.
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As a Senior Software Engineer – Infinia L4, you’ll be an escalation point for the most complex and critical issues affecting enterprise and hyperscale environments. This hands-on role is ideal for a deep technical expert who thrives under pressure and has a passion for solving distributed system challenges at scale. This role is part of the Infinia Core engineering team.

You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Field teams to drive root cause resolutions, define architectural best practices, and continuously improve product resiliency. Leveraging AI tools and automation, you’ll reduce time-to-resolution, streamline diagnostics, and elevate the support experience for strategic customers.

Key Responsibilities

Technical Expertise & Escalation Leadership

  • Own critical customer case escalations end-to-end, including deep root cause analysis and mitigation strategies.

  • Act as one of the technical escalation points for Infinia incidents — especially in production-impacting scenarios.

  • Lead war rooms, live incident bridges, and cross-functional response efforts with other engineering, QA, and Field teams.

  • Utilize AI-powered debugging, log analysis, and system pattern recognition tools to accelerate resolution.

Product Knowledge & Value Creation

  • Become a subject-matter expert on Infinia internals: metadata handling, storage fabric interfaces, performance tuning, AI integration, etc.

  • Reproduce complex customer issues and propose product improvements or workarounds.

  • Author and maintain detailed runbooks, performance tuning guides, and RCA documentation.

  • Feed real-world support insights back into the development cycle to improve reliability and diagnostics.

Customer Engagement & Business Enablement

  • Partner with Field CTOs, Solutions Architects, and Sales Engineers to ensure customer success.

  • Translate technical issues into executive-ready summaries and business impact statements.

  • Participate in post-mortems and executive briefings for strategic accounts.

  • Drive adoption of observability, automation, and self-healing support mechanisms using AI/ML tools.

  • Delivering training to customer support and field engineering

Required Qualifications
  • 8+ years in enterprise storage, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure support/engineering.

  • Deep understanding of file systems (S3, POSIX, NFS), storage performance, and Linux kernel internals.

  • Scripting and Coding using Python, Go, C++

  • Proven debugging skills at system/protocol/app levels (e.g., strace, tcpdump, perf).

  • Hands-on experience with troubleshooting on Linux.

  • Exposure to RDMA, NVMe-oF, or high-performance networking stacks.

  • Exceptional communication and executive reporting skills

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