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.

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.