Senior Cloud Storage Platform Architect

DDN; Santa Clara (CA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer to own the design of our cloud control plane and the software-defined storage layer. You’ll drive architecture, lead prototypes, and deliver scalable, reliable solutions for both cloud-native and on-premises environments.

You will define the end-to-end architecture, implement components, review code, and collaborate with a team of engineers to release high-quality products. Occasional travel may be required as teams align on milestones.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development experience across file systems, concurrency, distributed systems, or server architecture.
• Strong hands-on experience with C/C++ on Linux/UNIX systems.
• Direct experience with scale-out, high-availability storage solutions.
• Comfort spanning both cloud-native architecture and on-premises infrastructure realities.
• Deep storage or file-system knowledge (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) valued but not mandatory.

Responsibilities

• Define and drive the architecture of a cloud-hosted control plane, including containerization, microservices, and orchestration.
• Participate in the implementation of scalable software defined storage components.
• Drive design discussions, build prototypes and contribute to deliver high quality products.
• Conduct code reviews and improve scalability, stability, reliability and performance of solutions.
• Collaborate with your teammates and integrate a group of passionate developers in an outcome-oriented environment.
• Work closely with program management in the successful delivery of product releases.
• Contribute to and validate product documentation.
• Effectively manage, engage and complete projects as they are assigned to the role.
• Provide regular reports on project progress and activity updates.
• Ability to travel as may be required from time to time (e.g. for team meetings, training)

Skills

C/C++

Linux/UNIX

Distributed systems

File systems

Software architecture

Scale-out storage

Job description

DDN is hiring for a Staff Software Engineer to own the design of our cloud control plane and the software-defined storage layer. You’ll drive architecture, lead prototypes, and deliver scalable, reliable solutions for both cloud-native and on-premises environments.

You will define the end-to-end architecture, implement components, review code, and collaborate with a team of engineers to release high-quality products. Occasional travel may be required as teams align on milestones.