Sr. Manager Platform Engineering

Sr. Manager Platform Engineering 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. Data Direct 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  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.

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead our Platform Engineering team to lead the design, architecture, and evolution of Infinia s role operates across the full system stack including storage, compute, networking, firmware, BIOS, operating systems, orchestration, and cloud infrastructure, with deep ownership of storage media behavior, system reliability, and performance at scale.

You will guide teams through complex architectural decisions, foster a high-performing engineering culture, and partner closely with product, infrastructure, and executive leadership to deliver reliable, high-availability solutions for data-intensive workloads.

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.

• Lead and grow a diverse team of senior and principal engineers focused on distributed storage and platform engineering systems. You will be responsible for hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management.
• Work closely with architects and senior technical leaders to define and drive the technical roadmap for Infinia while understanding the platform implications of product and infrastructure decisions.
• Lead the implementation required to support new on-premises and cloud platforms, including hardware qualification, performance characterization, platform bring-up, and feature enablement.
• Partner with product management and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical priorities and executable engineering plans.
• Define and monitor engineering metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and operational health indicators to improve system availability, durability, and performance at scale.
• Establish engineering best practices, development processes, validation strategies, and quality standards to improve product reliability and engineering efficiency.
• Drive secure-by-design engineering practices including platform hardening, vulnerability management, and secure software supply chain initiatives.
• Manage project execution including scoping, prioritization, staffing, dependency management, risk mitigation, and on-time delivery of strategic initiatives.
• Work closely with OEMs, silicon vendors, and infrastructure partners to validate and certify new hardware platforms.
• Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to triage, root-cause, and resolve complex hardware, firmware, software, performance, and system integration issues.
• Participate in high-priority customer escalations involving performance, reliability, and large-scale distributed systems troubleshooting.
• Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across the organization.

• 20+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, distributed systems, or related technical domains.
• Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams in complex infrastructure or distributed systems environments.
• Expertise in Linux internals, high-performance storage systems, and distributed systems architecture.
• Expertise in platform validation, hardware…