Principal Software Engineer

Infinidat, a Lenovo company, empowers enterprises and service providers with cutting-edge storage platforms. The Principal Software Engineer will be responsible for the full development lifecycle across the entire portfolio, including architecture, implementation, testing, and release, ensuring solutions run reliably across various operating systems and hypervisors.

Responsibilities:

• 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)
• 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
• 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
• 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
• 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