NFS Developer

DDN; Pune District; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,600,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to drive the ongoing development of an NFS‑compliant high‑performance file system. You will design, implement and optimize in C/C++ on Linux, collaborate with teams worldwide, and mentor junior developers.

You will own full application development from design to deployment, participate in architectural reviews, and help resolve production defects while refining performance and reliability of storage components.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in system software development.
• Expert knowledge of C/C++ programming.
• Excellent Linux development and deployment skills.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, extend, and improve the NFS implementation.
• Design and develop in C/C++ under tight deadlines with minimal supervision.
• Define and articulate technical designs with detailed specs.
• Full application development from design to testing to deployment.
• Participate in technical reviews throughout development.
• Architecture and troubleshooting of system-level components, especially FS and storage.
• Undertake research tasks and design solutions based on findings.
• Mentor junior developers.
• Support deployment and production defect resolution promptly.

Skills

C/C++

Linux

OS concepts

Debugging

Architecture

English communication

Team leadership

Tools

gcc

gdb

git

g++

Job description

We are seeking a Sr. Software Engineer for the ongoing development of an NFS-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 NFS 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.