Senior Software Engineer

Job Title:

Senior Staff Software Engineer

We are looking for a hands‑on Senior Staff Software Engineer who will help design and build our Cluster management platform.

• 12+ years of backend development experience, with deep proficiency in Go, C++, or Python, specifically within high‑scale distributed systems.
• Specialized expertise in Access Control:
  In-depth knowledge of RBAC, ABAC, and multi‑tenancy models within containerized or orchestrated environments.
• Identity & infrastructure security:
  Practical experience with TLS/mTLS, PKI management, certificate life cycles, and identity protocols such as OAuth2/OIDC.
• Distributed systems foundations:
  Working knowledge of Consul, etcd, or other key/value stores used for service discovery and maintaining global cluster state.
• Technical diplomacy:
  The ability to bridge the gap between high‑level security mandates and the practical performance requirements of a storage control plane.
• Global collaboration:
  Proven results working with geographically distributed teams, utilizing asynchronous communication to drive alignment.

• Systemic domain ownership: A history of taking full responsibility for a mission‑critical domain, ensuring its long‑term health, documentation, and scalability.
• Experience building control planes:
  Proven success in developing API servers, controllers, or management layers for storage or compute resources.
• Knowledge synthesis:
  Track record of collaborating with long‑tenured experts to institutionalize tribal knowledge and turn it into robust, documented system architecture.
• Observability & hardening:
  Experience using Prometheus and Open Telemetry to ensure identity and control services are visible, performant, and resilient.
• Design thinking for infrastructure:
  The ability to simplify complex user access challenges into elegant, developer‑friendly CLI and API experiences.

• Lead the access control domain:
  Act as the primary technical authority for user authentication, authorization, and identity logic within our Software Defined Storage solution.
• Drive architectural continuity:
  Partner with senior leadership and domain experts to maintain and evolve our core infrastructure, ensuring a seamless transition of technical responsibilities.
• Collaborate with security stakeholders:
  Work alongside our dedicated security team to implement best‑in‑class user access controls that meet compliance standards without compromising system speed.
• Mentor and document:
  Provide expert code reviews, mentor mid‑level engineers, and create high‑fidelity documentation for our identity systems.
• Full‑lifecycle engineering:
  Participate in the Scrum model—from ideation and prototyping to testing and maintenance—ensuring high regression coverage for sensitive code paths.
• Global support:
  Contribute to our team on‑call rotation, providing high‑level expertise to support our global distributed footprint.

Salary Range: $150,000 – $250,000

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.