Senior Staff Software Engineer (SM)

Hammerspace obliterates data access delays for AI and high-performance computing.  Its Data Platform delivers a high-throughput, low-latency parallel global file systems unifying data from edge to core to multi-cloud, accessible via pNFS, NFSv3, SMB, and S3 standards.  Instant, agentless deployment with native Linuz support combined with migration-free data assimilation radically accelerates pipeline.  This approach keeps GPU’s saturated, speeds time-to-insights, and boosts researched and developer productivity.

We are seeking a seasoned Senior Staff Software Engineer for our System Management (SM) team who has expertise in the concepts of distributed file system management, inter-node configuration and communication, backend APIs, CLI, system coherency, and data storage. Additionally, this position requires development and architecture experience utilizing Java and Python languages, and technologies such as Spring, Hibernate, SaltStack, Kafka, RPC, and Protobufs.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and support functionality in components ranging from command line interfaces, RESTful web services, distributed and failsafe job executors, and telemetry gathering.
• These components involve languages/technologies such as Java, Spring, JPA/Hibernate, Jersey, Python, and SaltStack.
• Work independently with Product Management to own the design, engineering documentation, development tests, delivery, and enhancement of product features.
• Optimize existing code to improve performance, stability, supportability, and usability.
• Develop software confidence and reliability by using best practices and current software patterns, creating unit tests and mock tooling, writing clear and understandable code which lends itself to maintainability.
• Estimate and report development efforts.
• Participate in all aspects of peer code reviews.
• Test software solutions appropriately before delivery to the testing team.
• Work with the test team to provide TOIs and review test plans and test automation.
• Work with Customer Support and customers, if needed to resolve issues in the field.
• Work remotely with a global team, communicating effectively via Slack, Zoom, Email, Confluence, Jira and Bitbucket.

Qualifications

• Excellent proficiency of Java 8 or higher, Spring, and JPA.
• Working knowledge of Tomcat, Jersey, Jackson, REST API design, Python, PostgreSQL or similar
• Experience designing and working with enterprise applications.
• Ability to design features that require concurrency (utilizing threads, mutexes, semaphores).
• Experience debugging complex issues in a distributed and event driven environment.
• Understanding of the software development process, including OOAD, unit testing, test-driven design, and good understanding of design patterns and principles.
• Working knowledge of source control management systems such as Git.
• Experience delivering and supporting features across multiple releases.
• An aptitude for using Linux.
• 8+ years of related experience with a BS in Computer Science or equivalent degree; or 6+ years and a related MS degree; or 3+ years with a PhD.

Additional Desired Skills

• Experience with Bash, Grizzly, Jersey, InfluxDB, Thrift, ONC RPC, JClouds, Protobuf, Swagger, Mockito and/or JMock, and C.
• Kafka or similar event streaming/messaging technologies
• SaltStack or similar automated infrastructure management tooling
• Storage system domain knowledge.
• Experience integrating with cloud storage providers and APIs.
• Experience with networking – VLAN, IPv6, network security, load balancing, and troubleshooting tools
• Experience working with Maven.

To the extent required by state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.