Senior Staff Software Engineer

DDN Storage is the world leader in high performance and massively scalable data management and storage solutions that accelerate business results and scientific insights for data-centric organizations worldwide. Our unified, end-to-end platform uniquely addresses the tiered storage and large-scale data management demands of mixed workloads, multiple collaborative data centers and Web and cloud environments. Across traditional and commercial high-performance markets, customers rely on DDN Storage to solve the most demanding big data problems in industries such as cloud, online content and social networking, security and intelligence, life sciences, finance, energy and media production.

DDN’s Next Generation Data Services Platform is a game changing data management platform which will offer an intelligent resource management and orchestration layer, real time analytics capabilities, and an intuitive mobile-device-era user experience.

We are looking for a hands-on Senior Staff Software Engineer who will help design and build our data management platform.

DDN – Infinia engineers come from diverse backgrounds, and we consider them to be in the highest tier of technology game changers globally. They have created, architected and pioneered numerous advancements in data enabling technologies, and delivered groundbreaking ideas which have shaped and transformed the storage industry. 

What will you bring to DDN

• 8+ years development experience, with recent experience in Go, Python or C++
• Distributed systems engineering experience, with working knowledge of containers, key/value databases and timeseries data
• Hands on experience with Kubernetes deployments and orchestration
• Experience with platform deployment tools (MAAS, cobbler) a plus
• Advanced skill in Linux, including networking, filesystems and block storage
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams
• Demonstrated results of innovative thinking and delivery 

What you have achieved…

• Experience developing REST API/CLIs for storage or computation resources management
• A proven ability to own and deliver features in a fast paced environment
• Strong testing skills to ensure new feature and regression coverage
• Ability to both operate and make progress independently
• Experience working on developer tooling
• Deep understanding of Storage Design Thinking (ideation, prototyping, testing, design frameworks and concept visualization) 

What will you be doing

• Participate in the design and development of our Data Services and Software Defined Storage solution
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design challenges and user scenarios
• Within the Scrum model, participate in full product development lifecycle including planning, design, code, test, usability reviews, release and maintenance

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.