Senior Staff Engineer

Job details

Work model

Hybrid

Salary

$225K - $275K

Location

Santa Clara Colocation

Hiring context

How this role compares at DDN

DDN has 96 live roles in MeritLog’s catalog across 9 job families, and 57 of them are in engineering. 20 of those listings publish a pay range, a disclosure rate of 21%.

This role's posted range of $225K - $275K sits above 81% of the 16 other DDN roles quoted over the same currency and period.

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What the role asks for

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Job description

Company DDN has spent 25+ years building the infrastructure behind the world's most demanding computing environments - powering 48 of the top 100 supercomputers. Backed by $300M from Blackstone at a $5B valuation and deep partnerships with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Cloud, we're moving faster than ever. The AI boom has created unprecedented demand for exactly the kind of high-performance storage DDN has spent decades perfecting. The Role This role sits right at the center of that momentum. We're building our next-generation storage platform - designed from the ground up to solve the problems our existing products haven't fully cracked. You won't be maintaining someone else's architecture. You'll be defining it. On paper this is a "Staff Software Engineer" role. In practice, you're the architect. You'll own the design of our cloud control plane - the web application layer, the cloud services, observability, supportability - the whole nervous system that sits above our on-prem storage. And when something's genuinely hard and an engineer is stuck, you're the person who rolls up their sleeves and fixes it yourself. You will: - Define and drive the architecture of a cloud-hosted control plane, including containerization, microservices, and orchestration - Participate in the implementation of scalable software defined storage components - Drive design discussions, build prototypes and contribute to deliver high quality products - Conduct code reviews and improve scalability, stability, reliability and performance of solutions. - Collaborate with your teammates and integrate a group of passionate developers in an outcome-oriented environment. - Work closely with program management in the successful delivery of product releases - Contribute to and validate product documentation - Effectively manage, engage and complete projects as they are assigned to the role - Provide regular reports on project progress and activity updates - Ability to travel as may be required from time to time (e.g. for team meetings, training) EXPERIENCE: - 10+ years of software development experience across file systems, concurrency, distributed systems, or server architecture - Strong hands-on experience with C/C++ on Linux/UNIX systems - Direct experience with scale-out, high-availability storage solutions - Comfort spanning both cloud-native architecture and on-premises infrastructure realities - Deep storage or file-system knowledge (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) is valued but not mandatory - candidates with strong architectural range and hands-on ability, and some storage exposure, are equally encouraged to apply This is an opportunity to shape a new product from its architectural foundation, within a company with genuine history, credibility, and current momentum.