Senior Staff Software Engineer, S3
- Location
- Santa Clara, CA (Remote) · On-site
- Level
- Director
- Experience
- 12+ years
- Listed
- 23 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- C/C++
- Linux file system development
- user space IO frameworks (FUSE, SPDK)
Also useful
- RDMA
- libfabric
- Scrum
About the role
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.
From DDN's careers page, first listed on Rolev.ai on October 17, 2026. Rolev.ai is not the employer.
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