Software Engineer

Software Engineer

The Software Engineering team delivers next-generation application enhancements and new products for a changing world. Working at the cutting edge, we design and develop software for platforms, peripherals, applications and diagnostics — all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Software Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Seattle, Washington.

What you’ll achieve

As a Software Engineer, you will deliver scalable, high-performance storage and systems software that powers secure, highly available private and hybrid cloud solutions for customers.

You will:

• Own problems end-to-end across design, implementation, testing, deployment, and supportability within a cluster storage system
• Build and harden distributed services: durability, consistency, replication, data paths, metadata, control planes, scheduling, placement, and lifecycle management
• Optimize performance across compute, memory, IO, networking (including RDMA), and storage media (NVMe/SSD/HDD); drive latency and throughput improvements with data-driven profiling
• Advance reliability through observability, telemetry, failure injection, chaos testing, and automated remediation; raise the bar on serviceability and supportability
• Contribute to security & compliance with secure-by-default engineering

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

• Strong foundation in systems programming and distributed systems (concurrency, networking, storage, consistency, fault tolerance), with hands-on Linux/BSD debugging and observability tool
• Proficient in C/C++, Java, or Python with solid programming fundamentals and experience writing clean, testable code across CI/CD pipelines
• Ability to translate business needs into clear technical specifications, with strong analytical, debugging, and problem-solving skills
• Familiarity with distributed systems, advanced AI prompting/context engineering, and a plus for cybersecurity and secure system design
• 2-5 years of related experience

Desirable Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Deep understanding and knowledge across kernel subsystems, device drivers, and firmware, with hands-on experience in RDMA/verbs and user space, high-performance I/O frameworks (SPDK, DPDK).