Staff Software Engineer, AiDP

Technical Leadership

• Own the technical vision, architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Data Ocean platform while leading the implementation of core platform capabilities.
• Designing, developing, debugging, and optimizing production-quality C/C++ code for performance-critical distributed storage services.
• Design and implement scalable solutions for data movement, metadata management, intelligent caching, global namespace services, and data mobility.
• Architect and build high-performance data path and control plane services that deliver low latency, high throughput, scalability, and reliability.
• Define architectures that seamlessly integrate object, file, and block storage across on-premises and hybrid cloud environments.
• Solve complex distributed systems challenges involving consistency, replication, fault tolerance, concurrency, metadata management, and large-scale coordination.
• Lead architecture reviews and technical design discussions while driving engineering decisions that balance performance, scalability, maintainability, and operational simplicity.
• Lead by example through hands-on coding, code reviews, debugging, root-cause analysis, performance tuning, and technical mentoring.
• Partner closely with Product Management and Engineering teams to translate product requirements into high-quality, production-ready software.

Storage Platform Development

• Lead the design and implementation of next-generation storage platform capabilities, including:
• Intelligent object storage caching
• File system namespace caching
• Global namespace services
• Policy-driven data tiering across object, file, and block storage
• Data mobility, replication, and lifecycle management
• Distributed metadata and control plane services

Build highly scalable distributed storage software with enterprise-grade security, observability, availability, and operational excellence.

Cross-Functional Leadership

• Serve as the primary technical lead across Engineering, Product Management, and Architecture.
• Collaborate with Product Management to define technical strategy, roadmap priorities, and implementation plans.
• Drive technical execution and alignment across globally distributed engineering teams.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, architecture guidance, code reviews, and technical coaching.
• Clearly communicate technical direction and architectural decisions to engineering and executive stakeholders.
• Partner with infrastructure, cloud, platform, and DevOps teams to ensure seamless deployment and integration.
• Establish engineering best practices for systems-level software development using C/C++.
• Maintain high standards for software architecture, code quality, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
• Drive performance analysis, profiling, and optimization across distributed storage components.
• Champion automated testing, including unit, integration, system, scalability, and performance testing.
• Support modern CI/CD practices and reliable software delivery.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field.
• 10+ years of experience developing enterprise storage systems or distributed systems software.
• Proven experience as a Principal Engineer, Senior Staff Engineer, or Technical Lead building complex distributed software platforms.
• Expert-level C/C++ programming skills with a passion for writing high-quality, production-ready code.
• Deep expertise in distributed systems, including consistency models, replication, fault tolerance, distributed coordination, concurrency, and scalability.
• Strong experience with object storage, distributed file systems, block storage, and cloud storage architectures.
• Proven track record designing and delivering production-scale distributed storage platforms.
• Experience leading architecture and technical execution across cross-functional and globally distributed engineering teams.
• Excellent communication, collaboration, and mentoring skills.