Staff Software Engineer - Platform Management

Overview

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

  

"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." – IDC 

  

“The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments” - Marc Hamilton, VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA 

  

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence. 

  

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management. 

  

Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage. 

Job Description

DDN’s Next Generation Data Services Platform is a game changing data management platform which will offer an intelligent resource management and orchestration layer, real time analytics capabilities, and an intuitive mobile-device-era user experience.

 

We are looking for a hands-on Staff Software Engineer who will help design and build our data management platform.

 

DDN – Infinia engineers come from diverse backgrounds, and we consider them to be in the highest tier of technology game changers globally. They have created, architected and pioneered numerous advancements in data enabling technologies, and delivered groundbreaking ideas which have shaped and transformed the storage industry. 

 

What will you bring to DDN

• 8+ years of development experience and platform management, with recent experience in Go, Python or C++
• Distributed systems engineering experience, with working knowledge of containers, storage solutions, high performance systems
• Expertise in IaC solutions (like Ansible, Terraform) to improve quality, consistency, reliability and deployment efficiency.
• Hands on experience with Docker deployments and orchestration
• Experience implementing, deploying and maintaining storage solutions across distributed systems.
• Experience with platform deployment tools (Ansible, MAAS, cobbler)
• Advanced skill in Linux, including networking, filesystems and block storage
• Experience working with geographically distributed teams

What you have achieved…

• Experience in platform management, working with baremetal systems as well as cloud
• Experience developing REST API/CLIs for storage or computation resources management
• Led the adoption of standardized solutions across organizations to automate infrastructure and software management
• A proven ability to own and deliver features in a fast paced environment
• Strong testing skills to ensure new feature and regression coverage
• Ability to both operate and make progress independently
• Experience working on developer tooling
• Deep understanding of Storage Design Thinking (ideation, prototyping, testing, design frameworks and concept visualization)
• Demonstrated results of innovative thinking and delivery

What will you be doing

• Participate in the design and development of our Data Services and Software Defined Storage solution
• Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design challenges and user scenarios
• Led the design of our platform management effort, targeting an user-friendly experience when deploying Infinia on a variety of platforms.
• Within the Scrum model, participate in full product development lifecycle including planning, design, code, test, usability reviews, release and maintenance

This position requires participation in an on-call rotation to provide after