Sr. Software Engineer

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Viking Enterprise Solutions (VES) has a rich history of leadership in providing storage and storage server platforms to hyperscale and enterprise data centers worldwide. The division leads the market with ultra-high capacity and high-performance systems. Now VES provides advanced software solutions supporting ML/AI applications for generative and inferential AI in the data center and at the Edge. Software is at the heart of what makes VES a solutions provider.

Cloud native systems are designed and built to simplify the use of tools and hardware so users get the job done quickly and efficiently. VES also designs and builds NVMe flash based server appliances, JBOD storage systems and related products for a variety of data center and storage applications. Viking Enterprise Solutions products are tailored for integration into OEM, System Integrator and data center products.

Viking Enterprise Solutions is proud to be part of the Sanmina family. Sanmina is recognized as a technology leader, providing end-to-end design, manufacturing and logistics solutions, maintaining a global footprint of design and manufacturing operations in 23 countries on six continents.

Viking Enterprise Solutions provides flexible, scalable, and resilient storage array platforms for enterprise and cloud service providers. We are looking for an experienced Software Developer to join our core engineering team to build, maintain, and optimize software-defined storage management systems using open-source and proprietary technologies.

The ideal candidate possesses deep expertise in Linux storage stacks, Kubernetes internals (e.g., CSI drivers, orchestration), and low-level system debugging. In this role, you will contribute to critical architectural decisions, execute end-to-end task planning, and deliver high-reliability storage services in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

• Design, build and maintain storage services and their integration into Kubernetes (CSI drivers,storage orchestration, provisioning, and data-path components)
• Work within the Linux Storage stack: block layer file systems, and drive and target that expose storage to clients
• Debug hard problems that span multiple layers: kernel, storage, drivers, cluster orchestration,networking and getting to the root cause
• Harden, package, and ship storage and other components as part of the Kubernetes based product, including performance analysis and failure-mode testing
• Contribute to architectural decisions on how storage, compute and networking fit together.

• Bachelor's Degree in a related field of work and minimum of 8 years of related Experience.

Nobody is an expert in all four areas below, and we don’t expect you to be, we’re looking for deep hands-on expertise in at least two of the three core areas (Linux, Kubernetes, Storage). Networking is strong plus on top of any combination

• The expertise to read and write kernel cod: kernel modules, kernel debugging, and working knowledge of kernel subsystems relevant to IO
• Deep understanding of the Linux IO path and how the kernel, memory management, and scheduling affect storage behavior and performance.
• You’ve developed complete CSI driver solutions or build and operated custom Kubernetesdistribution:
  Not just deployed apps onto managed cluster
• You understand the ecosystem down to the low level: etcd, kubelet, the CRI/CNI/CSI interfaces, controllers and operators, API machinery.
• You can debug cluster internals:
  Why a node is Not Ready, why a volume won’t mount, what the scheduler or kubelet is actually doing

• You know what the SCSI SAM, SPC, and SBC standards are for and how they shape real implementation
• You’ve written Linux Storage Drivers, or worked extensively inside the code of a file storage/sharing service such as Samba, NFS, or file systems like ZFS or Open Lustre
• You’re familiar with advanced and distributed file systems(e.g. BeeGFS, SeaweedFS, Ceph or similar)
• You know the Linux…