Principal Software Engineer
About the role
This is a core engineering role on a small, high-ownership team within Infinidat’s Professional Services group. The team develops and maintains a portfolio of storage management and automation tools that extend InfiniBox capabilities across heterogeneous environments. There is no dedicated QA, DevOps, or product manager—engineers own the full development lifecycle: architecture, implementation, testing, packaging, build pipelines, and release.
The solutions must run reliably across a wide range of host operating systems and hypervisors—Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris, VMware ESX/vCenter, Hyper-V, and Oracle Linux VM—as well as Podman-containerized deployments and Ansible-automated workflows.
Responsibilities
- Core Development
- Design, implement, and maintain Python CLI tools (AADM, SnapSync) and their shared domain libraries
- Develop and extend the Infinidat Ansible Collection modules covering InfiniBox volumes, hosts, clusters, exports, snapshots, network spaces, and more
- Maintain and evolve the IPAT performance alerting service, deployed as a Podman-managed containerized application
- Extend host and hypervisor integration across Linux, Windows, AIX, Solaris, VMware ESX/vCenter, Hyper-V, and Oracle Linux VM
- Maintain InfiniBox and InfiniMetrics REST API and InfiniSDK integrations across the portfolio
- Build and improve AI-assisted exception triage pipelines (AADM, SnapSync)
- Build, Packaging, and Release
- Own multi-distribution build systems: Docker-based builder containers, RPM and DEB packaging for RHEL, Rocky, Oracle Linux, and Ubuntu
- Maintain GitLab CI/CD pipelines and release tooling across all projects
- Manage release cycles: tag, validate, and promote builds through unstable → stable → external channels
- Publish Ansible Collection releases to Ansible Galaxy and the internal GitLab registry
- Quality and Reliability
- Design and maintain unit and acceptance test suites
- Investigate and root-cause field exceptions; own the triage-to-fix lifecycle
- Validate releases against the acceptance test matrix before promotion
- Process and Operations
- Maintain Jira workflow and release notes across the portfolio
- Keep technical documentation current as tools evolve
Requirements
- At least 7 years of Python development with a focus on systems or CLI tooling—not web frameworks
- Demonstrated enterprise storage background: block storage, NAS, replication, host connectivity via FC or iSCSI
- Strong Linux systems proficiency across multiple distributions (RHEL/Rocky, Ubuntu); direct experience building and publishing RPM and DEB packages
- Experience with remote host communication via SSH (paramiko or equivalent) and WinRM
- Container-based build and deployment experience (Docker and/or Podman)
- CI/CD pipeline experience (GitLab CI or equivalent)
- Strong written communication; this team operates async-first across time zones
Preferred Qualifications
- Ansible module or collection development; familiarity with Ansible Galaxy publishing
- Direct Infinidat InfiniBox or competitive enterprise array experience (NetApp, Pure, EMC)
- Hypervisor integration experience: VMware ESX/vCenter (pyvmomi), Hyper-V, or Oracle Linux VM
- Windows and AIX host management
- SQLAlchemy or similar Python ORM
- AI-assisted tooling integration
- Experience with Podman quadlets and systemd service management
About Infinidat
Infinidat, a Lenovo company, empowers enterprises and service providers with cutting-edge storage platforms that redefine performance, reliability, and cyber resilience at scale. Our enterprise storage systems are trusted by the world’s most demanding data centers. Infinidat’s acclaimed InfuzeOS is one of the most flexible and complete enterprise software-defined storage architectures in the industry. Recent enhancements include an extensive expansion of our award-winning G4 enterprise cyber and AI storage solutions. In 2025, Infinidat won over 40 awards and was named a Gartner Peer Insights Voice of the Customer Award for Primary Storage for the seventh time.