Staff Engineer Async Replication

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.

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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.

DDN is seeking a Staff Replication Development Engineer to lead the design and development of the replication engine for the Infinia AI Data Platform. This role focuses on building enterprise-grade asynchronous replication capabilities that enable reliable and secure disaster recovery for large-scale data systems.

You will work on developing high-performance replication pipelines efficient data synchronization mechanisms and secure data transfer systems. This role requires deep expertise in distributed systems and strong technical leadership to deliver a scalable and resilient replication foundation.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop multi-threaded asynchronous replication systems with parallel streaming capabilities
  Build object-level delta replication with checkpointing and resume functionality
  Develop replication engines supporting bucket/share-level replication controls
  Implement secure data transfer mechanisms using TLS 1.3 with mutual authentication
  Ensure end-to-end data integrity through checksum validation and verification pipelines
  Design and implement manual failover workflows for disaster recovery scenarios
  Build and maintain REST APIs for replication configuration control and automation
  Develop metadata tracking and change detection systems to enable efficient replication
  Implement RPO visibility alerting and operational insights for replication status
  Contribute to monitoring dashboards focused on replication health and performance
  Ensure systems are designed for high availability fault tolerance and scalability
  Partner with QA teams to drive performance resiliency and scale validation
  Collaborate with backend security and platform teams to deliver end-to-end replication workflows
  Participate in debugging production issue resolution and continuous improvement of replication reliability
  Provide technical leadership architectural guidance and mentorship to the engineering team

Required Qualifications

• 8 years of experience in distributed systems storage systems or backend software engineering
  Strong programming skills in one or more languages: C Go Java or Rust
  Experience designing and building data replication systems data pipelines or distributed data services
  Deep understanding of distributed systems concepts (consistency availability scalability fault tolerance)
  Strong expertise in multi-threading concurrency and parallel processing
  Knowledge of networking protocols and secure communication (TCP/IP HTTP/HTTPS TLS)
  Experience implementing data integrity mechanisms (checksums validation consistency checks)
  Experience designing and building REST APIs and service-based architectures
  Familiarity with checkpointing failure recovery and retry mechanisms in distributed systems
  Basic understanding of observability concepts (metrics logging alerting)
  Strong debugging problem-solving and system design skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with asynchronous replication disaster recovery (DR) or backup systems
  Familiarity with object storage or large-scale data storage systems
  Knowledge of delta encoding change data capture or incremental data synchronization techniques
  Experience building high-throughput low-latency data movement systems
  Exposure to security practices including mutual TLS encryption and authentication
  Experience working on enterprise-scale data platforms or storage products
  Familiarity with performance optimization and large-scale system tuning

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