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Founded by a team of VMware cloud pioneers, we are dedicated to transforming IT operations. Our flagship product, Private Cloud Director, turns your existing hardware into a full-featured, future-ready private cloud. We innovate across what we build and how we deliver it, staying focused on a next-generation, open private cloud while holding ourselves to one standard: exceptional customer outcomes.\nEnterprises are selecting Platform9 to replace legacy virtualization because it eliminates operational risk and complexity. Private Cloud Director is designed for the experienced infrastructure team, offering a familiar GUI experience for managing VMs and containers, seamless integration with your existing hardware and third-party storage, and critical enterprise features (HA/DR, scale, reliability) built-in. This enables IT teams to gain robust API control and a user experience they trust-rooted in customer obsession and an owner’s mindset. We share context quickly and candidly to keep decisions moving.\nWith over 30,000 nodes in production at some of the world’s largest enterprises, including Cloudera, EBSCO, Juniper Networks, and Rackspace, Platform9 is the proven path to achieving true vendor independence and operational consistency. We are an inclusive, globally distributed company backed by prominent investors, supported by a partner ecosystem of resellers, systems integrators, MSPs, and technology vendors committed to driving private cloud innovation and efficiency. Our values-innovation, customer obsession, ownership, radical candor, and excellence-guide how we build and support every deployment.\nPosition Summary:\nWe are looking for a Lead Engineer/Managerto 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. This is a hands-on technical leadership role for someone who has built or worked deeply on backup, restore, replication/continuous data protection (CDP)technologies, and understands what it takes to help customers meet aggressive RPO (Recovery Point Objective)and RTO (Recovery Time Objective)targets.\n You will own a critical part of our product ecosystem, he systems that ensure customer data and workloads can be reliably protected, replicated, and recovered ,while also mentoring and growing a small team of engineers.\nWhat You'll Do\nDesign, develop, and own core Back up & DR features spanning backup, restore, replication/CDP, and management features for PCD environments\nDrive engineering decisions to meet the business objectives including performance, reliability, cost, platform compatibility.\nArchitect and build storage-driver interface for various storage vendors, ensuring consistency, integrity, and recoverability of data across failure scenarios.\nArchitect and build storage independent replication technology for consistency, integrity, performance recoverability across data centers.\nLead and mentor a team of engineers, QA, UI and UX, providing technical direction, SDLC, code/design reviews, and career guidance.\nCollaborate with Product and Support teams to define requirements, validate scenarios, troubleshoot production issues and train the involved parties\nDrive root-cause analysis for failures and lead the resolution of complex, distributed-systems issues.\nContribute to architecture and roadmap discussions for the storage and data protection stack.\nEstablish and enforce engineering best practices testing, automation, documentation, and operational readiness.\nWhat We're Looking For\n8+ yearsof software/systems engineering experience, with a significant portion focused on Disaster Recovery, Backup, Restore, or Replicationtechnologies.\nPrior experience leading or mentoring a team, even informally (tech lead, module owner, etc.).\nStrong understanding of storage stack including FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD, RPO/RTO concepts and trade-offs in real-world architectures.\nHands-on experience with Continuous Data Protection (CDP), snapshot-based or log-based replication, and storage systems (block, file, or object).\nSolid background in systems-level software development- strong coding skills in one or more of: Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, or Python.\nExperience working with distributed systems, storage stacks, or virtualization/cloud infrastructure.\nStrong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex, data-critical, low-tolerance-for-error systems.\nExcellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with Product and Support teams.\nNice to Have\nDirect experience with enterprise DR/backup platforms.\nExposure to CDP-based DR-as-a-service offerings (e.g., VMware Site Recovery Manager , HPE Zerto Software) with an understanding of how RPO/RTO targets are engineered into orchestrated failover pipelines.\nFamiliarity with backup-target/appliance architectures (e.g.VMware SRM, Site REcovery Manager) and how they integrate into a broader data-protection stack.\nExposure to hypervisor or hyperconverged infrastructure environments.\nExperience with public cloud DR/replication services (AWS, Azure, GCP).\nFamiliarity with storage protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD) or software-defined storage.\nBenefits and Perks:\nEmployees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. 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