Job Description

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

Requirements:

• Accountable and highly motivated with solid people skills
• 12+ years99 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

Nice to have:

• 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.

Salary Range for this role: $215,000 - $265,000

Join our dynamic and driven team, where engineering excellence is at the heart of everything we do. We seek individuals who love to challenge themselves and are fueled by curiosity. Here, you99ll have the opportunity to work across various areas of the company, thanks to our flat organizational structure that encourages hands-on involvement and direct contributions to our mission. Leadership is earned by those who take initiative and consistently deliver outstanding results, both in their work ethic and deliverables, making strong prioritization skills essential. Additionally, we value strong communication skills in all our engineers and researchers, as they are crucial for the success of our teams and the company as a whole.

Interview Process: After submitting your application, one of our recruiters will review your resume. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 30-minute interview during which a member of our team will ask some basic questions. If you clear the interview, you will enter the main process, which can consist of up to four interviews in total:

• Coding assessment: Often in a language of your choice.
• Systems design: Translate high-level requirements into a scalable, fault-tolerant service (depending on role).
• Real-time problem-solving: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.
• Meet and greet with the wider team.
• Our goal is to finish the main process in 2-3 weeks at most.

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