We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the ongoing development of a S3 compliant high performance file system. The candidate must have proven development experience with technical leadership qualities, effective communication skills and is a self-starter. In addition, the candidate must collaborate with other teams and individuals worldwide to quickly learn DDN products/technology/setup & configuration. The candidate must be able to leverage and integrate the monitoring, health-check and alerting aspects around the product.
Key Responsibilities:Maintain, extend, and improve our S3 implementation.
Design and develop in C/C++ under tight deadlines with minimal supervision
Define and articulate technical designs with the appropriate details
Full application development from design to development to testing to deployment
Participate in technical reviews throughout the course of development
Architecture and troubleshooting of system level components, especially the file system and related storage system components.
Undertake research based technical tasks: Define research approach, document results and derive conclusions. Should be able to design a solution based on the research conducted
Mentor junior developers
Support product deployment and production defect resolution in a timely manner
Accountable and highly motivated with solid people skills
12+ years’ experience system software development and complex problem resolution.
Expert knowledge of the following programming languages: C/C++
Excellent Linux development and deployment skills including but not limited to file system development.
Full understanding of OS principles and architecture of Kernel procedures.
Broad range of experience with open-source development toolchain like gcc, gdb, g++, git
Experience designing and developing parallel program
Good communication skills (verbal and written English).
Understanding of Linux File Systems
Knowledge of user space IO frameworks such as Fuse, SPDK
Strong understanding of RDMA network principles, libfabric, zero-copy, verbs, etc.
Knowledge of performance engineering.
Experience working with Scrum Agile
Experience of complex network programming, TCP/IP or RDMA.
Skills Required
- 12+ years of system software development and complex problem resolution experience
- Expert knowledge of C/C++
- Excellent Linux development and deployment skills, including file system development
- Understanding of operating system principles and kernel architecture
- Experience with open-source development tools including GCC, GDB, G++, and Git
- Experience designing and developing parallel programs
- Understanding of Linux file systems
- Knowledge of user-space I/O frameworks such as FUSE and SPDK
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Strong understanding of RDMA, libfabric, zero-copy, and verbs
- Knowledge of performance engineering
- Experience with Scrum Agile
- Experience with complex network programming, TCP/IP, or RDMA
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.
