Senior Software Engineer S3

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the worlds most demanding AI data centers in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services autonomous cars Government academia research and manufacturing.

DDNs A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure. IDC

The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments - Marc Hamilton VP Solutions Architecture & Engineering NVIDIA

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance reliability and scalability DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation customer-centricity and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.

Our commitment to innovation customer success and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.

We are seeking a Sr. 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 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
- 5 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.
- 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



Nice to have:

- Knowledge of user space IO frameworks such as Fuse SPDK
- 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.

DataDirect Networks Inc. is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity gender expression transgender sex stereotyping sexual orientation national origin disability protected Veteran Status or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal state or local law.