Senior Staff Engineer - Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

Your Role

• Architectural Strategy: Lead the design of critical NKP components with a focus on multi-tenancy, resilience, and "Fleet Management". You will ensure NKP operates reliably at the Edge and in resource-constrained environments.
• Force Multiplier: Act as a technical "bar-raiser". " You will lead and mentor a distributed team of 15–20 engineers, driving excellence through design reviews, coding standards, and a culture of technical curiosity.
• Cross-Functional Leadership: Partner with Product Management, the Data Services (NDK) team, and Core Hybrid Cloud teams to translate high-level business goals into technical roadmaps for stateful workloads and disaster recovery.
• Community & Innovation: Represent Nutanix in the open-source community. Contribute to upstream CNCF projects (Cluster API, Kappa, etc.), file patents, and author white papers that define the future of hybrid cloud.
• Operational Excellence: Engage with customers and support teams to resolve complex production issues, ensuring our platform meets the highest standards of scale and user experience.
• What You Will Bring
• Experience: 15-20+ years of software development experience within product-led companies, with a significant tenure architecting and shipping large-scale distributed systems. Technical: Rock-solid proficiency in Go, Python, or Java. While deep K8s internals (controllers, API machinery) are a plus, we value "systems thinkers" who can master new stacks quickly.
• Domain Expertise: A proven track record in cloud-native systems, Docker/containers, and large-scale control plane management is a great plus. Leadership: You can navigate ambiguity, drive consensus across multiple teams, and balance long-term innovation with short-term risk/reward trade-offs.
• Education: BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or a related field.
• Work Arrangement
• Hybrid: This role operates in a hybrid capacity, blending the benefits of remote work with the advantages of in-person collaboration. In locations where our workplace policy applies (i.e. San Jose, Durham, Mexico City, Bangalore, Pune, Hoofddorp, Belgrade, Barcelona, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo), employees are expected to work onsite a minimum of 3 days per week to foster collaboration, team alignment, and access to in-office resources. Workplace type may vary based on location and team requirements. Please speak with your recruiter for details. Additional team-specific guidance and norms will be provided by your manager.