Software Engineer - FUSE Developer

Job Description

We are seeking a Staff Software Engineer for the development of a POSIX compliant high performance file system. The candidate must have proven development experience with technical leadership qualities, effective communication skills, and is a self‑starter. The candidate must collaborate with other teams and individuals worldwide to quickly learn DDN products/technology/setup & configuration, and be able to leverage and integrate the monitoring, health‑check and alerting aspects around the product.

• Maintain, extend, and improve our FUSE module, and upstream changes as appropriate.
• 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.

• Accountable and highly motivated with solid people skills.
• 8+ 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 Kernel File Systems.
• Knowledge of user space IO frameworks such as Fuse, SPDK.

• 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.

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Data Direct Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.