# Engineering Lead (Backup & Disaster Recovery) at Platform9

- Company: Platform9
- What the company does: Platform9 offers enterprises a familiar private cloud experience with all critical enterprise features to run VMs and containers at scale. Backed by Redpoint.
- Company website: http://platform9.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote (US)
- Work setup: Remote
- Posted: 2026-08-19
- Apply by: 2026-10-12
- Apply: https://platform9systems.applytojob.com/apply/5JufsqtHB7/Engineering-Lead-Backup-Disaster-Recovery
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/platform9-engineering-lead-backup-and-disaster-recovery/

## 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