About this opportunity
DDN lists this Senior Staff Engineer opportunity in santa clara, California. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
Company
DDN has spent 25+ years building the infrastructure behind the world's most demanding computing environments - powering 48 of the top 100 supercomputers. Backed by $300M from Blackstone at a $5B valuation and deep partnerships with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Cloud, we're moving faster than ever. The AI boom has created unprecedented demand for exactly the kind of high-performance storage DDN has spent decades perfecting.
The Role
This role sits right at the center of that momentum. We're building our next-generation storage platform - designed from the ground up to solve the problems our existing products haven't fully cracked. You won't be maintaining someone else's architecture. You'll be defining it.
On paper this is a "Staff Software Engineer" role. In practice, you're the architect. You'll own the design of our cloud control plane - the web application layer, the cloud services, observability, supportability - the whole nervous system that sits above our on-prem storage. And when something's genuinely hard and an engineer is stuck, you're the person who rolls up their sleeves and fixes it yourself.
You will:
Define and drive the architecture of a cloud-hosted control plane, including containerization, microservices, and orchestration
Participate in the implementation of scalable software defined storage components
Drive design discussions, build prototypes and contribute to deliver high quality products
Conduct code reviews and improve scalability, stability, reliability and performance of solutions.
Collaborate with your teammates and integrate a group of passionate developers in an outcome-oriented environment.
Work closely with program management in the successful delivery of product releases
Contribute to and validate product documentation
Effectively manage, engage and complete projects as they are assigned to the role
Provide regular reports on project progress and activity updates
Ability to travel as may be required from time to time (e.g. for team meetings, training)
Experience:
10+ years of software development experience across file systems, concurrency, distributed systems, or server architecture
Strong hands-on experience with C/C++ on Linux/UNIX systems
Direct experience with scale-out, high-availability storage solutions
Comfort spanning both cloud-native architecture and on-premises infrastructure realities
Deep storage or file-system knowledge (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) is valued but not mandatory - candidates with strong architectural range and hands-on ability, and some storage exposure, are equally encouraged to apply
This is an opportunity to shape a new product from its architectural foundation, within a company with genuine history, credibility, and current momentum.
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Worksite address
santa clara, CA, 95053, US
Who can apply
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