Software Principal Engineer

Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) builds the products that power infrastructure, solutions, and data management our customers need most. Our teams design and develop the hardware and software that connect infrastructure, accelerate computational workloads, integrate across the stack, protect data continuity, and deliver the platforms, applications, and diagnostics our customers rely on every day at enterprise scale.

Some product builders follow the rules. Ours rewrite them.

Within ISG, innovation isn't just about creating new technology- it's about challenging assumptions and reimagining how work gets done. Engineers define intent, author precise specifications, and orchestrate AI agents that execute at speed and scale. AI is embedded throughout our development process, helping us move faster, learn quicker, and deliver greater impact. Yet the most important contribution remains uniquely human: deciding what to build, designing how it should work, and applying the judgment needed to earn our customers' trust. When your products power critical infrastructure around the world, that responsibility matters.

We move quickly toward the work that matters most. We reward experimentation, encourage bold thinking, and remove unnecessary barriers so great ideas can become reality faster. Our teams embrace a customer-first, first-to-market mindset, transforming rapid feedback into better products and better outcomes. We aren't looking for people who are content with the status quo- we look for builders who question it, improve it, and occasionally rewrite it.

If you're energized by solving complex systems challenges, excited to work alongside AI to amplify your impact, and motivated by the opportunity to shape what's next instead of simply maintaining what's been done before, you'll find your place here.

Join us and help build the future of enterprise technology.

DataPath Engineering - Dell Technologies, Israel

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 the software powering Dell's enterprise storage products as part of the Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) - spanning platforms, applications and diagnostics, all with the most advanced technologies, tools, software engineering methodologies and the collaboration of internal and external partners.

Our DataPath Engineering team builds the high-performance storage software stack at the heart of Dell’s primary storage platforms - much of it built on and contributed back to open source, including the Storage Performance Development Kit (SPDK).

Join us as a Software Principal Engineer on our engineering team in Israel to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact.

We work in an AI-native development environment - applying spec-driven development (SDD) and clear engineering governance to deliver complex software with both speed and without sacrificing quality.

Key Responsibilities

As a Principal Software Engineer, you will:

• Design, develop, and own complex software features - from requirements and design through implementation, testing, and long-term support.
• Build high-performance datapath software on SPDK, integrating emerging drive, enclosure, and protocol technologies.
• Own performance analysis of the storage software data path - including queueing behavior, CPU efficiency, memory usage, PCIe bottlenecks, and latency behavior.
• Work closely with architecture, hardware, and software teams on HW/SW interface definition.
• Experiment with and integrate emerging AI tools into the development workflow to boost productivity and innovation.

Essential Requirements

• Relevant BSc with exceptional marks from a top university.
• 7+ years of hands-on experience with one or more of: storage, device drivers, embedded software/firmware, Linux, networking, including a proven track record of contributing to open-source projects and engaging with upstream communities.
• Expert-level coding skills in C/C++.
• Experience and understanding of Linux internals including algorithms, data structures, multithreading concepts, object synchronization and communication protocols.
• Comfort working in an AI-native development environment - spec-driven development (SDD), AI-assisted workflows, and engineering governance.

Desirable Requirements

• Deep experience with NVMe-oF, storage networking, or low-latency distributed systems, including hands-on familiarity with NVMe SSD internals and an understanding of how device-level features impact host-side performance.
• Working knowledge of storage and networking protocols and related high-performance transports (RDMA/RoCE), along with experience using Python for infrastructure tooling, test automation, and scripting.