Scientist Distributed Storage Management and Development

Scientist for Distributed Storage Management and Development

Datum: 11 januari, 2026 Tid: 11:59

Placering: DESY

This project focuses on analysing and optimising scientific data flows in preparation for the High-Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC). It addresses the growing data management and processing demands of future LHC experiments by developing scalable strategies for efficient data access, distribution, and storage across distributed computing infrastructures.

The central component of this project is dCache. The dCache.org is an international collaboration of computer scientists to provide eponymous open source software for storing and retrieving huge amounts of data distributed among a large number of heterogeneous server nodes, under a single virtual file system tree with a variety of standard access methods, including NFSv
4.1 (pNFS), WebDAV and FTP protocols. dCache.org products are in use around the world by a large variety of scientific communities. The Software is written in Java programing language using microservice-like architecture and based on widely adopted components, like Jetty, Spring, Zookeeper, Apache Kafka and others. The German section of dCache.org is part of DESY IT. DESY operates multiple instances of dCache providing more than 150

PiB of data and each is part of world wide interconnected scientific communities with about 10000 users.

The successful candidate will design and evaluate data processing pipelines, contribute to the development of dCache, and collaborate closely with international research groups. This position offers an opportunity to work at the intersection of large-scale data systems, advanced computing technologies, and experimental particle physics - contributing directly to the success of next-generation scientific discoveries at the HL-LHC.