Senior Staff Engineer (S3)

We are seeking a Sr Staff Software Engineer for the ongling 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.