High-Performance I/O & Storage Backend Developer

Viridien; Crawley; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Bonus scheme

Annual leave 22 days

Pension scheme

Unmind app

Benefits platform

Social events

Cycle to work

Private Medical & Dental

Visa sponsorship & relocation

Holiday swap

Casual dress code

Job summary

Viridien in the United Kingdom is seeking a Software Developer - High-Performance I/O & Storage Systems to design, build, and improve services that enable efficient data access and storage across distributed environments.

This role focuses on developing high-performance backend services and APIs that integrate with performance-critical applications, ensuring throughput and low latency across the full data path.

Qualifications

• Strong software development experience in C, C++, Go or Python.
• Proven experience building backend services, distributed systems, or performance-critical components.
• Understanding of how software interacts with storage systems, operating systems, and hardware.
• Experience working with I/O-intensive systems, storage APIs, or data services.
• Experience analysing and optimising performance, including throughput and latency.
• Experience designing and working with APIs such as gRPC.
• Familiarity with distributed systems and microservices architectures.
• Experience with containerisation technologies such as Docker or Kubernetes.
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop high-performance I/O and storage services.
• Build and maintain APIs including gRPC-based services.
• Analyse and optimise performance across the data path.
• Contribute to containerised deployments and distributed architectures.

Skills

C

C++

Go

Python

Backend services

Distributed systems

gRPC

Docker

Kubernetes

Performance optimization

Data I/O

Tools

S3-compatible storage

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Viridien in the United Kingdom is seeking a Software Developer - High-Performance I/O & Storage Systems to design, build, and improve services that enable efficient data access and storage across distributed environments.

This role focuses on developing high-performance backend services and APIs that integrate with performance-critical applications, ensuring throughput and low latency across the full data path.