Staff Software Engineer - Data Path

Overview

Staff Software Engineer - Data Path role in DDN’s Data Ocean team, building high-performance data path software for next-generation AI and enterprise storage platforms.

What you'll do

• Design and implement high-performance data path components for the Data Ocean platform.
• Develop intelligent caching capabilities for object storage workloads.
• Build scalable services for data movement across object, file, and block storage environments.
• Implement metadata management services for object tracking, lookup, and retrieval.
• Optimize data transfer pipelines for throughput, latency, scalability, and reliability.
• Analyze, debug, and optimize system performance across large-scale storage workloads.

What you'll need

• 8+ years of experience developing systems software, storage software, or distributed systems.
• Strong expertise in C/C++ programming for production-grade software.
• Strong Linux systems programming experience.
• Experience with multithreaded programming, concurrency, synchronization, and performance tuning.
• Understanding of storage systems, filesystems, or distributed storage architectures.
• Experience working with object storage concepts and APIs, including S3.

Nice to have

• Experience developing distributed storage systems or high-performance data platforms.
• Knowledge of filesystem internals, metadata management, and namespace services.
• Experience with intelligent caching, data tiering, replication, or data mobility solutions.
• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, HPC workloads, or large-scale data processing environments.

Details

• Location: Pune Office.