Senior 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.

We build enterprise-grade, massively scalablecluster-based storage systems running across Linux and BSD. Our portfolio includes a multi-petabyte S3 object store and a scale-out NAS platform.

We’rea modern, scrum-based engineeringorgthat ships with high velocity and quality, using the best tools, hardware, and practices.

Join us to do the best work of your career and make a profound social impact as a Senior
Software Engineer on our Software Engineering Team in Round Rock, Texas, Hopkinton, Massachusetts, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, Seattle, Washington .

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

• Own problems end-to-endacross 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
• Optimizeperformanceacrosscompute, 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 withsecure-by-default engineering

• Strong foundation in systems programming and distributed systems fundamentals, including concurrency, networking, storage architecture, consistency models, and fault tolerance
• Proficiency in at least one programming language (C/C++, Java, or Python) with the willingness to learn across the full technology stack
• Hands-on experience developing and debugging on Linux or BSD systems, using performance and observability tools such as perf, strace/dtrace/eBPF, and tcpdump
• Demonstrate ability to write clean, testable code, with experience across unit, integration, and system-level testing and CI/CD pipelines
• 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)

Dell is committed to fair and equitable compensation practices.

The salary range for the Software Engineer position is130K to 155K

The salary range for the Senior Software Engineer position is158K to 185K

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Note:

compensation may vary depending on location)

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03 June 2026

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• Job Identification R282944
• Job Category Software Engineering
• Posting Date 05/05/2026, 10:36 PM
• Apply Before 05/08/2026, 04:00 AM
• Job Schedule Full time
• Job Shift Day
• Locations 176 South Street, Hopkinton, MA, 1748, US
• Total Compensation Range USD 149600 - USD 193600
• Award winning financial wellness tools and resources
• Generous leave of absence for new parents and caregivers