Senior Staff Software Engineer, S3
- Level
- Staff
- Work type
- Hybrid · Santa Clara
Not stated in the posting: salary, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
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.
What this role asks for
Particular to this role
Git · Networking
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The team: Infinia Engineering HIRES STEADILY
This role is one of 29 open in Infinia Engineering. 16 were posted in the last 30 days and the oldest in July: a team that hires all year rather than one being built.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
Linux (18 of 29), C++ (14 of 29), Python (14 of 29), CI/CD (11 of 29), C (9 of 29), Prometheus (8 of 29), Test Automation (8 of 29)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Staff Engineer posted Oct 15
- Software Engineer L4 posted Oct 13
- QA Engineer II posted Oct 5
- Senior / Staff NFS Engineer posted Oct 2
- Senior Staff Engineer - AI Data Path posted Oct 2
- Lead Engineer – Security Architecture posted Oct 2
- Sr/Staff Lustre Engineer posted Oct 2
- Senior Software Engineering Manager – KV Cache Platform posted Oct 1
- Staff Software Engineer, AiDP posted Oct 1
- Staff Engineer, Replication posted Oct 1
- Senior Director, Data Platform Services posted Sep 29
- Hardware Engineer posted Sep 24
- Ai Pursuit Engineer posted Sep 22
- Staff Engineer - L4 posted Sep 22
- QA Engineer III posted Sep 22
- Sustaining Engineer - L4 posted Sep 10
- Senior Staff Software Development Engineer in Test (SDET posted Aug 25
- Staff Software Engineer - Data Path posted Aug 24
- Staff Engineer - Data Path posted Aug 10
- Senior Staff Storage Engineer posted Aug 4
- Senior Software Engineer - Backend posted Aug 4
- DevOps Engineer posted Aug 4
- Staff Security Engineer posted Jul 31
- Director, Engineering – Release Engineering, DevOps & SRE posted Jul 27
- QA Engineer III posted Jul 20
- Staff Engineer - Devops posted Jul 15
- Staff Engineer - Performance posted Jul 15
- Staff Software Engineer posted Jul 15
From the team and dates on DDN's own job board.
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