Senior Staff Software Java Engineer (DME)

Hammerspace, Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Hammerspace, Inc. is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Software Java Engineer to lead initiatives in optimizing data systems for high-performance computing. You will collaborate with a global team, focusing on implementing robust software components while liaising with various stakeholders to improve product functionalities. This role demands expertise in Java, Spring, and enterprise application design, with opportunities to innovate within an agile framework.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in software engineering or related field.
• Experience with Java, C, and Python.
• Deep understanding of REST API design and streaming technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement software components for data and policy analysis.
• Collaborate with architects and product managers to enhance features.
• Optimize existing code for performance and usability.

Skills

Concurrency design

Debugging complex issues

Software development processes

Enterprise application design

Linux proficiency

Education

BS in Computer Science

MS in Computer Science

PhD in Computer Science

Tools

Tomcat

Jersey

Spring

Hibernate

Git

Job description

Senior Staff Software Java Engineer (DME)

About Hammerspace, Inc.

Hammerspace obliterates data access delays for AI and high-performance computing. Its Data Platform delivers a high-throughput, low-latency parallel global file system unifying data from edge to core to multi-cloud, accessible via pNFS, NFSv3, SMB and S3 standards. Instant, agentless deployment with native Linux support combined with migration-free data assimilation radically accelerates pipelines. This approach keeps GPUs saturated, speeds time-to-insight, and boosts researcher and developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support functionality in components ranging from data and policy analysis, ReSTful web services, distributed and failsafe job executors, and telemetry gathering.
• These components involve languages/technologies such as java, C, Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Jersey, Python, and SaltStack.
• Work with Software Architects and Product Management to design, deliver and enhance product features.
• Optimize existing code to improve performance, stability, supportability and usability.
• Develop software confidence and reliability by using best practices and current software patterns, creating unit tests and mock tooling, writing clear and understandable code which lends itself to maintainability.
• Estimate and report development efforts.
• Participate in all aspects of peer code reviews.
• Test software solutions appropriately before delivery to the testing team.
• Work with the test team to provide TOIs and review test plans and test automation.
• Work with Customer Support and customers, if needed to resolve issues in the field.
• Work remotely with a global team, communicating effectively via Slack, Zoom, Email, Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket.

Qualifications

• Working knowledge of Tomcat, Jersey, Jackson, ReST API design, Spring, Hibernate, JPA, Postgresql or similar, Kafka, SaltStack.
• Experience designing and working with enterprise applications.
• Ability to design features that require concurrency (utilizing threads, mutexes, semaphores).
• Experience debugging complex issues in a distributed environment.
• Understanding of the software development process, including OOAD, unit testing, test-driven design, and good understanding of design patterns.
• Working knowledge of source control management systems such as Git.
• Experience delivering and supporting features across multiple releases.
• An aptitude for using Linux.
• 8+ years of related experience with a BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree; or 6+ years and a Master’s degree; or 3+ years with a PhD.

Additional Desired Skills

• Experience with Bash, Grizzly, InfluxDB, Thrift, ONC RPC, JClouds, Protobuf, Swagger, Mockito and/or JMock.
• Storage system domain knowledge.
• Experience integrating with cloud storage providers and APIs.
• Experience working with CMake and Maven.

Hammerspace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies:

Agencies are hereby specifically directed not to contact Hammerspace employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. To protect the interests of all parties, Hammerspace will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Hammerspace will be considered Hammerspace property. Hammerspace will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Hammerspace will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

Agency must obtain advance written approval from Hammerspace’s recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Hammerspace will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place.