Senior Staff Software Engineer, S3

DDN; North Carolina; On-site; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN in United States is seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer to lead the ongoing development of a high-performance, S3 compliant file system. You will design, implement, and optimize the S3 layer using C/C++, while collaborating with global teams to integrate monitoring and health checks.

Strong leadership, communication, and self-starting capabilities are essential. You will mentor junior developers, participate in architectural reviews, and contribute to production deployment and defect

Qualifications

• 12+ years’ experience in system software development and complex problem resolution.
• Expert knowledge of C/C++ and Linux development including file system development.
• Strong understanding of OS principles and kernel architecture.

Responsibilities

• Maintain, extend, and improve our S3 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 and derive conclusions; design solutions based on research.
• Mentor junior developers
• Support product deployment and production defect resolution in a timely manner

Skills

C/C++

Linux development

Kernel architecture

Verbal and written English

Mentoring juniors

Team collaboration

Tools

GCC

GDB

Git

FUSE

SPDK

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Staff Software Engineer for the ongoing development of a S3 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 S3 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


• 12+ 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.


• Broad range of 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


• Knowledge of user space IO frameworks such as Fuse, SPDK

Nice To Have

• Strong 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.