Senior Staff Software Engineer, S3
At DDN · Santa Clara Office; Remote - North Carolina; Santa Clara, California, United States
- Engineering
- Full-time
- Staff or principal
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- Posted
- 29 September 2026
- First seen by us
- 15 October 2026
- Last checked
- 12 hours ago
Job description
From DDN’s job post, as they wrote it.
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.
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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.
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