As a Senior Software Engineer – Infinia L4, you’ll be an escalation point for the most complex and critical issues affecting enterprise and hyperscale environments. This hands-on role is ideal for a deep technical expert who thrives under pressure and has a passion for solving distributed system challenges at scale. This role is part of the Infinia Core engineering team.
You’ll collaborate with Engineering, Product Management, and Field teams to drive root cause resolutions, define architectural best practices, and continuously improve product resiliency. Leveraging AI tools and automation, you’ll reduce time-to-resolution, streamline diagnostics, and elevate the support experience for strategic customers.
Key ResponsibilitiesTechnical Expertise & Escalation Leadership
Own critical customer case escalations end-to-end, including deep root cause analysis and mitigation strategies.
Act as one of the technical escalation points for Infinia incidents — especially in production-impacting scenarios.
Lead war rooms, live incident bridges, and cross-functional response efforts with other engineering, QA, and Field teams.
Utilize AI-powered debugging, log analysis, and system pattern recognition tools to accelerate resolution.
Product Knowledge & Value Creation
Become a subject-matter expert on Infinia internals: metadata handling, storage fabric interfaces, performance tuning, AI integration, etc.
Reproduce complex customer issues and propose product improvements or workarounds.
Author and maintain detailed runbooks, performance tuning guides, and RCA documentation.
Feed real-world support insights back into the development cycle to improve reliability and diagnostics.
Customer Engagement & Business Enablement
Partner with Field CTOs, Solutions Architects, and Sales Engineers to ensure customer success.
Translate technical issues into executive-ready summaries and business impact statements.
Participate in post-mortems and executive briefings for strategic accounts.
Drive adoption of observability, automation, and self-healing support mechanisms using AI/ML tools.
Delivering training to customer support and field engineering
8+ years in enterprise storage, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure support/engineering.
Deep understanding of file systems (S3, POSIX, NFS), storage performance, and Linux kernel internals.
Scripting and Coding using Python, Go, C++
Proven debugging skills at system/protocol/app levels (e.g., strace, tcpdump, perf).
Hands-on experience with troubleshooting on Linux.
Exposure to RDMA, NVMe-oF, or high-performance networking stacks.
Exceptional communication and executive reporting skills
Skills Required
- 8+ years of experience in enterprise storage, distributed systems, or cloud infrastructure support or engineering
- Deep understanding of file systems including S3, POSIX, and NFS
- Knowledge of storage performance and Linux kernel internals
- Scripting and coding experience with Python, Go, and C++
- Proven debugging skills at system, protocol, and application levels using tools such as strace, tcpdump, and perf
- Hands-on Linux troubleshooting experience
- Exposure to RDMA, NVMe-oF, or high-performance networking stacks
- Exceptional communication and executive reporting skills
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.
