Senior Staff Engineer (S3)

We are seeking a Sr Staff Software Engineer for the ongling 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.