Senior Staff Software Engineer, S3

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.

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.