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Engineering Lead (Backup & Disaster Recovery)

Platform9 · Remote (US) · Remote

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About Platform9

Platform9 offers enterprises a familiar private cloud experience with all critical enterprise features to run VMs and containers at scale. Backed by Redpoint.

About the role

We are looking for a Lead Engineer/Manager to join our newly formed Backup & Disaster Recovery group . The role needs strong design, development, delivery and leadership skills for our Backup & Disaster Recovery capabilities across our platforms.

What they're looking for

  • 8+ years of software/systems engineering experience, with a significant portion focused on Disaster Recovery, Backup, Restore, or Replication technologies
  • Prior experience leading or mentoring a team , even informally (tech lead, module owner, etc.)
  • Strong understanding of storage stack including FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD, RPO/RTO concepts and trade-offs in real-world architectures
  • Hands-on experience with Continuous Data Protection (CDP) , snapshot-based or log-based replication, and storage systems (block, file, or object)
  • Solid background in systems-level software development — strong coding skills in one or more of: Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, or Python
  • Experience working with distributed systems, storage stacks, or virtualization/cloud infrastructure
More about this role

We are looking for a Lead Engineer/Manager to join our newly formed Backup & Disaster Recovery group . The role needs strong design, development, delivery and leadership skills for our Backup & Disaster Recovery capabilities across our platforms. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who has built or worked deeply on backup, restore, replication/continuous data protection (CDP) technologies, and understands what it takes to help customers meet aggressive RPO (Recovery Point Objective) and RTO (Recovery Time Objective) targets.

You will own a critical part of our product ecosystem, he systems that ensure customer data and workloads can be reliably protected, replicated, and recovered ,while also mentoring and growing a small team of engineers.

  • Design, develop, and own core Back up & DR features spanning backup, restore, replication/CDP, and management features for PCD environments
  • Drive engineering decisions to meet the business objectives including performance, reliability, cost, platform compatibility.
  • Architect and build storage-driver interface for various storage vendors, ensuring consistency, integrity, and recoverability of data across failure...

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