Overview
DriveSavers is seeking an experienced software engineer with expertise in C/C++ and familiarity with storage technologies to help enhance our data recovery toolset. This is a highly technical, hands-on position focused on analyzing proprietary storage and backup formats, and developing robust recovery tools to retrieve critical customer data from damaged or inaccessible systems.
Responsibilities
- Analyze proprietary on-disk formats and metadata to identify recovery strategies across all layers of the storage stack
- Design and implement libraries and applications in C/C++ (or other suitable languages) for parsing, reconstructing and extracting data from a variety of storage systems, file system and backup applications.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to validate tool output and improve recovery workflows
- Contribute to build system and automation infrastructure by integrating tools with source control, CI pipelines, and dependency managers (e.g., Git, GitHub Actions, Conan)
Skills required
- Advanced proficiency in C/C++, with a focus on systems-level and performance-critical development
- Experience with binary data formats, storage technologies and file system internals
- Familiarity with backup solutions and technologies
- Familiarity with compression and encryption algorithms and implementations
- Bonus: Experience in static and dynamic binary analysis, malware analysis, or digital forensics (e.g., IDA Pro, Ghidra)
- Bonus: Working knowledge of Python or Rust for scripting and prototyping
Additional Information
- This is a remote position open to candidates worldwide
- Availability for some collaboration during U.S. business hours is preferred
- Confidentiality and data security are critical -- background screening may be required
Interested?
If you're passionate about low-level development and solving complex data recovery challenges, we'd love to hear from you. Reach out directly for more information.
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What We Do
DriveSavers Data Recovery provides certified secure data recovery and digital forensic services to corporations, government organizations, businesses, and consumers. DriveSavers engineers are experts at recovering data from firmware and physical failures, software corruption, solid-state drive (SSD) technology, smartphones, and mobile devices, and encrypted devices. Our engineers are trained and certified in all leading encryption and forensics technologies and operate a Certified ISO Class 5 Cleanroom.
DriveSavers Data Recovery successfully recovers over seven million files (5400GB) of lost data every day and is authorized by all the major data storage device manufacturers. Data may be rescued from any operating system and all types of storage devices – from legacy to state-of-the-art.
All of the company’s services meet security protocols for financial, legal, corporate, and healthcare industries and posts proof of its SOC 2 Type II audit report and HIPAA data security and privacy compliance. DriveSavers Data Recovery adheres to US Government security protocols, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act Data Security Rule (GLBA), the Data-At-Rest mandate (DAR), and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX).
Data storage device manufacturers, backup storage system manufacturers, and cloud service providers routinely rely on DriveSavers to recover and restore lost data. Other satisfied customers include: Bank of America, Google, Lucasfilm, NASA, Harvard University, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, U.S. Army, and Sandia National Laboratories.
