Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. BRK Tech, a Berkshire Hathaway Group Company, is seeking Senior, Staff & Principal Software Engineers across various domains. The roles focus on designing, building, and operating technology platforms to support large-scale systems across multiple industries.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate modern technology platforms that run at massive scale and support long‑term, real‑world impact
• Build and operate enterprise messaging platforms
• Operate and scale large distributed production systems
• Build and operate enterprise observability platforms

Skills

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience (4+ additional years)
• Typically 6–8+ years of relevant experience with strong hands‑on ownership for Senior Engineers
• Typically 10+ years with deep technical leadership and architecture ownership for Principal Engineers
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong proficiency in at least one major language (Java, Go, Python, C#, or similar)
• Hands‑on experience building distributed systems and platform services
• Backend and platform development: microservices, APIs, service‑to‑service integrations
• Messaging and event‑driven systems: Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar
• Data platforms: SQL, NoSQL, Graph databases, caching systems
• CI/CD pipelines, Git workflows, and modern DevOps practices
• Containers, Kubernetes, and/or serverless runtimes
• Familiarity with observability stacks (metrics, logging, tracing, alerting)
• Hands‑on experience with Ceph‑based SDS (object, block, file)
• Storage protocols: NVMe‑oF (TCP), S3, NFS, SMB/CIFS
• Designing and scaling high‑availability, multi‑tenant storage platforms
• Data resiliency and recovery models (N+2 / N+3, erasure coding, DR)
• Storage integration with Kubernetes, virtualization, and bare metal
• Strong Linux systems expertise
• Automation using Python, Go, Bash, C/C++
• Experience with OpenStack, Nutanix, VMware, KubeVirt
• Architecture of high‑performance storage fabrics
• Expertise in NVMe‑oF, RDMA, QoS
• Deep routing knowledge: BGP, OSPF
• Experience with Cisco, Palo Alto, NVIDIA/Mellanox
• Designing and validating N+2 / N+3 resilient architectures
• Linux networking and open‑source ecosystems
• Strong grounding in network security
• Performance tuning for distributed storage (Ceph/Swift) at scale
• Kubernetes and virtualization optimization (KubeVirt a plus)
• Advanced Linux tuning: kernel parameters, eBPF, I/O profiling
• High‑performance hardware & networking (PCIe Gen5, NVMe‑oF/TCP)
• NUMA, CPU pinning, cgroups, and resource isolation
• Quantitative modeling of latency and throughput
• Operating and scaling large distributed production systems
• Strong foundation in SRE principles
• Deep experience with Kubernetes, Linux internals, and automation
• Infrastructure tooling using Go, Python, or Java
• Observability across metrics, logging, tracing, and alerting
• High‑availability and data resiliency architectures
• Leadership during high‑severity production incidents
• Ownership of platforms with 24/7 operational responsibility
• Building and operating enterprise messaging platforms
• Deep expertise with Kafka and/or RabbitMQ, including multi‑DC
• Messaging architecture: topic/queue design, durability, HA, scaling
• Event‑driven and integration‑heavy environments
• Kubernetes‑based platforms (on‑prem and/or cloud)
• API‑driven integrations and distributed systems fundamentals
• Strong production ownership mindset
• Building and operating enterprise observability platforms
• Strong open‑source background
• Expertise across logging, metrics, distributed tracing, and alerting
• Kubernetes telemetry pipelines and centralized ingestion
• Code‑level visibility into latency, errors, and service dependencies
• Alerting driven by SLOs, SLAs, and latency thresholds
• Public cloud exposure (AWS, Azure, GCP)

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