Senior Staff Engineer - Remote LustreFS & HPC Storage

DataDirect Networks; North Carolina; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly Competitive Vacation Plans

Paid Holidays

Bonus Programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision

Paid Leave Programs

Anniversary and Recognition Awards

Job summary

DataDirect Networks seeks a Staff Engineer with 10+ years in distributed storage and Linux‑based systems engineering to lead LustreFS design, debugging and performance work. The role emphasizes hands‑on development, subsystem ownership, and collaboration with QE, support and release teams.

The ideal candidate will drive complex investigations, contribute to reliability, observability, and AI‑assisted tooling, and mentor engineers while advancing large‑scale Lustre deployments in a

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in systems software, distributed systems, storage, Linux kernel or filesystem engineering.
• Strong experience in LustreFS development, support or performance engineering with depth in at least one major subsystem.
• Strong C programming and Linux systems debugging skills.
• Working knowledge of Linux kernel internals, filesystem semantics, networking and performance analysis.
• Experience with LNet and/or high‑performance transports such as RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE or TCP‑based storage networking.
• Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple layers including client, server, network and backend storage.
• Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across functions in a fast‑moving engineering environment.

Responsibilities

• Hands‑on development and debugging of LustreFS defects, performance issues and subsystem enhancements.
• Customer‑facing and scale‑related issue investigation across llite, metadata, object storage, LNet and transport layers.
• Collaborative design and implementation of reliability, observability and serviceability improvements.
• Reviewing and validating fixes through targeted tests, failure injection, log analysis and performance characterization.
• Using AI‑assisted workflows to accelerate triage, debug loops, code understanding and documentation quality.
• Contributing to team redundancy by strengthening documentation, code review quality and subsystem knowledge sharing.

Skills

LustreFS

C programming

Linux debugging

Distributed systems

Performance analysis

AI-assisted debugging

Tools

LNet

RDMA / InfiniBand

Job description

DataDirect Networks seeks a Staff Engineer with 10+ years in distributed storage and Linux‑based systems engineering to lead LustreFS design, debugging and performance work. The role emphasizes hands‑on development, subsystem ownership, and collaboration with QE, support and release teams.

The ideal candidate will drive complex investigations, contribute to reliability, observability, and AI‑assisted tooling, and mentor engineers while advancing large‑scale Lustre deployments in a