Senior Staff Engineer, Data Path – Low-Latency Systems

Ddn; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Ddn in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Sr. Staff Engineer - Data Path to design, develop, and optimize data path components in a distributed storage and data services platform, with emphasis on scalable, low-latency performance.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product teams while remaining hands-on in C/C++ design and implementation. This senior IC role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cross-team influence to drive

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a technical field.
• 12+ years of experience in systems software, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong experience designing and implementing performance-critical software components.
• Proficiency in C/C++ or similar systems programming languages.
• Solid understanding of operating systems fundamentals, concurrency, memory management, and networking concepts.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and optimize core data path components in large-scale, distributed systems.
• Contribute to system architecture decisions affecting performance, throughput, latency, and resource utilization.
• Develop high-quality, maintainable code for performance-critical paths, primarily in C/C++.
• Analyze and optimize data movement across CPU, memory, storage, and network layers.
• Lead design reviews and mentor engineers on systems design, performance engineering, and best practices.

Skills

C/C++

Systems programming

Performance optimization

Distributed systems

Concurrency

OS fundamentals

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Job description

Ddn in Santa Clara, CA, seeks a Sr. Staff Engineer - Data Path to design, develop, and optimize data path components in a distributed storage and data services platform, with emphasis on scalable, low-latency performance.

You will lead architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and collaborate with platform, infrastructure, and product teams while remaining hands-on in C/C++ design and implementation. This senior IC role emphasizes reliability, observability, and cross-team influence to drive