Senior Software Development Engineer – Java & Python (AWS & Datacenter Experience)

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.   

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth.  We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The Team

We represent the Hitachi Vantara Ecosystem and Software Engineering Team that builds next-generation automation and orchestration platform to simplify IT management across edge, core, and cloud environments. AI-driven infrastructure management and automation tool that enables agile operations, supports converged and hyper-converged systems, and accelerates private and hybrid cloud deployments.

Our team works with enterprise clients across industries to understand their challenges and deliver intelligent, scalable, and profitable digital infrastructure solutions using Hitachi products and services. Collaboration and customer success are central to our mission — and we’re looking for passionate engineers who can help deliver that success.

The role

As a Senior Backend Engineer on the API and Orchestration Services team, you will design, build, and maintain backend APIs and services that power the intelligence layer of Hitachi IQ. This includes features such as multi-tenancy, RBAC, system orchestration, and lifecycle management for storage, compute, and networking infrastructure across hybrid environments.

You will be instrumental in delivering scalable services with Java, Python, and cloud-native technologies, and in managing infrastructure that spans both AWS and traditional datacenters.

What you’ll bring

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain scalable, secure, and high-performance APIs using Java and Python.
• Build orchestration services that manage compute, storage (SAN/NAS), FC, and Ethernet infrastructure.
• Support and extend platform capabilities for multi-tenancy, RBAC, lifecycle automation, and Day 0-N operations.
• Contribute to release cycles, POCs, prototypes, and customer issue resolutions.
• Lead efforts to resolve performance bottlenecks and infrastructure-related integration issues.
• Collaborate across cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration between hardware and software components.
• Own and maintain components through all phases of development, including testing and sustaining.
• Participate in Agile ceremonies and continuously improve productivity, maintainability, and performance.

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent field.
• 5–10 years of hands-on software development experience in enterprise products or infrastructure platforms.
• 5+ years of experience building backend services for web-scale products.
• Proficient in Java (Spring Boot) and strong experience with Python.
• Experience building infrastructure-aware applications for both AWS cloud and on-premises datacenters.
• Deep understanding of multithreading, parallel programming, and Java Streams.
• Proven ability to troubleshoot complex issues and implement reliable, scalable fixes.
• Familiarity with Linux-based development environments.
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and microservices deployment patterns.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD, REST APIs, and API security practices.
• Clear understanding of design principles and object-oriented programming.

Nice to Have

• Knowledge of hardware platforms such as servers, switches, FC SAN, or enterprise storage arrays.
• Experience with infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform, Ansible).
• Familiarity with event-driven architectures and message queues (Kafka, RabbitMQ).
• Understanding of enterprise compliance frameworks and operational monitoring.

About us   We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.   #LI-PN1

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion   

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.   

How we look after you  

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.   

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.