DDN

Senior Staff Software Engineer, S3

Santa Clara Office · Remote - North Carolina

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Role family: Engineering
Seniority: Lead / management
Country: US
Work mode: On-site / unstated
First seen by hirly: 30 Sept 2026

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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.

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