Engineering Lead (Backup & Disaster Recovery)

Location: Remote

Department: General

About Us:

Platform9: Private Clouds Made Easy

Platform9 is the leader in simplifying enterprise Private Clouds. 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.

Enterprises 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.

With 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.

Position Summary:

We are looking for a  Lead Engineer/Manager to 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.

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.

What Youll Do

• Design, develop, and own core Back up & DR features spanning backup, restore, replication/CDP, and management features for PCD environments
• Drive engineering decisions to meet the business objectives including performance, reliability, cost, platform compatibility.
• Architect and build storage-driver interface for various storage vendors, ensuring consistency, integrity, and recoverability of data across failure scenarios.
• Architect and build storage independent replication technology for consistency, integrity, performance recoverability across data centers.
• Lead and mentor a team of engineers, QA, UI and UX, providing technical direction, SDLC, code/design reviews, and career guidance.
• Collaborate with Product and Support teams to define requirements, validate scenarios, troubleshoot production issues and train the involved parties
• Drive root-cause analysis for failures and lead the resolution of complex, distributed-systems issues.
• Contribute to architecture and roadmap discussions for the storage and data protection stack.
• Establish and enforce engineering best practices testing, automation, documentation, and operational readiness.

What Were Looking For

• 8+ years of software/systems engineering experience, with a significant portion focused on Disaster Recovery, Backup, Restore, or Replication technologies.
• Prior experience leading or mentoring a team, even informally (tech lead, module owner, etc.).
• Strong understanding of storage stack including FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD, RPO/RTO  concepts and trade-offs in real-world architectures.
• Hands-on experience with Continuous Data Protection (CDP), snapshot-based or log-based replication, and storage systems (block, file, or object).
• Solid background in systems-level software development — strong coding skills in one or more of: Rust, C/C++, Go, Java, or Python.
• Experience working with distributed systems, storage stacks, or virtualization/cloud infrastructure.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills for complex, data-critical, low-tolerance-for-error systems.
• Excellent communication skills and comfort working cross-functionally with Product and Support teams.

Nice to Have

• Direct experience with enterprise DR/backup platforms.
• Exposure 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.
• Familiarity with backup-target/appliance architectures (e.g.VMware SRM, Site REcovery Manager) and how they integrate into a broader data-protection stack.
• Exposure to hypervisor or hyperconverged infrastructure environments.
• Experience with public cloud DR/replication services (AWS, Azure, GCP).
• Familiarity with storage protocols (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, FC, iSCSI, NVMe, RBD, DRBD) or software-defined storage.

Benefits and Perks:

Employees today are looking for companies that truly care and recognise their whole person. Platform 9s benefits and perks have been carefully designed to ensure that we take care of an employees emotions and physical well-being. Many of our benefits extend to families, who form a significant part of our well-being at work

Please note that benefits change by country.

• Competitive Compensation and Equity
• Medical Healthcare for you and your family
• Hybrid Work Model
• Wellness Benefits
• Professional Development/Global certifications
• Reward and Recognition Programs
• Team Building Activities

Our benefits have been carefully selected, keeping in mind employees requirements and personal situations now and for the future