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.