Company
DDN has spent 25+ years building the infrastructure behind the world's most demanding computing environments - powering 48 of the top 100 supercomputers. Backed by $300M from Blackstone at a $5B valuation and deep partnerships with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Cloud, we're moving faster than ever. The AI boom has created unprecedented demand for exactly the kind of high-performance storage DDN has spent decades perfecting.
The Role
This role sits right at the center of that momentum. We're building our next-generation storage platform - designed from the ground up to solve the problems our existing products haven't fully cracked. You won't be maintaining someone else's architecture. You'll be defining it.
On paper this is a "Staff Software Engineer" role. In practice, you're the architect. You'll own the design of our cloud control plane - the web application layer, the cloud services, observability, supportability - the whole nervous system that sits above our on-prem storage. And when something's genuinely hard and an engineer is stuck, you're the person who rolls up their sleeves and fixes it yourself.
You will:
Define and drive the architecture of a cloud-hosted control plane, including containerization, microservices, and orchestration
Participate in the implementation of scalable software defined storage components
Drive design discussions, build prototypes and contribute to deliver high quality products
Conduct code reviews and improve scalability, stability, reliability and performance of solutions.
Collaborate with your teammates and integrate a group of passionate developers in an outcome-oriented environment.
Work closely with program management in the successful delivery of product releases
Contribute to and validate product documentation
Effectively manage, engage and complete projects as they are assigned to the role
Provide regular reports on project progress and activity updates
Ability to travel as may be required from time to time (e.g. for team meetings, training)
10+ years of software development experience across file systems, concurrency, distributed systems, or server architecture
Strong hands-on experience with C/C++ on Linux/UNIX systems
Direct experience with scale-out, high-availability storage solutions
Comfort spanning both cloud-native architecture and on-premises infrastructure realities
Deep storage or file-system knowledge (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) is valued but not mandatory - candidates with strong architectural range and hands-on ability, and some storage exposure, are equally encouraged to apply
This is an opportunity to shape a new product from its architectural foundation, within a company with genuine history, credibility, and current momentum.
Skills Required
- 10+ years of software development experience across file systems, concurrency, distributed systems, or server architecture
- Strong hands-on experience with C and C++ on Linux or UNIX systems
- Direct experience with scale-out, high-availability storage solutions
- Ability to work across cloud-native architecture and on-premises infrastructure
- Deep storage or file-system knowledge, such as Lustre or GPFS
- Ability to travel as required for team meetings or training
What We Do
DDN is the world’s largest private data storage company and the leading provider of intelligent technology and infrastructure solutions for Enterprise At Scale, AI and analytics, HPC, government and academia customers. Through its DDN and Tintri divisions, the company delivers AI, Data Management software and hardware solutions, and unified analytics frameworks to solve complex business challenges for data-intensive, global organizations. DDN provides its enterprise customers with the most flexible, efficient and reliable data storage solutions for on-premises and multi-cloud environments at any scale. Over the last two decades, DDN has established itself as the data management provider of choice for over 11,000 enterprises, government, and public-sector customers, including many of the world’s leading financial services firms, life science organizations, manufacturing and energy companies, research facilities, and web and cloud service providers.
