Technical Lead, AI Data Platform & Distributed Storage

Ddn; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

DDN is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the Technical Lead for the Data Ocean initiative within the DDN AI Data Platform. The role defines the technical vision, architecture, and execution strategy for next-generation data management, including intelligent caching, global namespaces, data tiering, and data mobility across hybrid storage environments.

This hands-on leadership position focuses on solving complex storage challenges, mentoring teams, and driving architectural decisions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise storage systems or distributed systems software.
• Expert-level C/C++ programming skills with a passion for writing high-quality, production-ready code.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, including consistency models, replication, fault tolerance, distributed coordination, concurrency, and scalability.
• Strong experience with object storage, distributed file systems, block storage, and cloud storage architectures.
• Proven track record designing and delivering production-scale distributed storage platforms.

Responsibilities

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Data Ocean platform while leading the implementation of core platform capabilities.
• Designing, developing, debugging, and optimizing production-quality C/C++ code for performance-critical distributed storage services.
• Design and implement scalable solutions for data movement, metadata management, intelligent caching, global namespace services, and data mobility.
• Architect and build high-performance data path and control plane services that deliver low latency, high throughput, scalability, and reliability.
• Define architectures that seamlessly integrate object, file, and block storage across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
• Solve complex distributed systems challenges involving consistency, replication, fault tolerance, concurrency, metadata management, and large-scale coordination.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions while driving engineering decisions that balance performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
• Lead by example through hands-on coding, code reviews, debugging, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and technical mentoring.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to translate product requirements into high-quality, production-ready software.

Skills

C/C++

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Architecture design

Performance tuning

Code reviews

Communication

Cross-functional

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS/EE

Job description

DDN is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to serve as the Technical Lead for the Data Ocean initiative within the DDN AI Data Platform. The role defines the technical vision, architecture, and execution strategy for next-generation data management, including intelligent caching, global namespaces, data tiering, and data mobility across hybrid storage environments.

This hands-on leadership position focuses on solving complex storage challenges, mentoring teams, and driving architectural decisions.