Senior / Staff NFS Engineer
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About the Position
Senior / Staff NFS Engineer
Location
Santa Clara, California, United States
Employment Type
Full time
Location Type
Hybrid
About the Role
At DDN, you will work on problems that sit at the heart of modern infrastructure:
- Scaling and optimizing Network File Systems
- Building and improving distributed file systems and object storage
- Tuning performance across kernel-level and user-space I/O stacks
- Working with NVMe, SSDs, RDMA, and high-speed networking
- Integrating storage platforms into Kubernetes-native environments
- Using Python to automate, debug, test, and improve complex systems
Your work will directly influence how high-performance data platforms behave under real-world load, not just in theory.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize features across DDN’s NFS and storage stack
- Diagnose bottlenecks across file systems, storage media, networking, and I/O paths
- Improve performance, scalability, and resiliency in distributed storage environments
- Work across kernel-space and user-space components to solve hard systems problems
- Collaborate with engineers across storage, systems, and platform layers
- Develop tooling and automation in Python to improve observability, testing, and operations
- Help shape the next generation of infrastructure for AI and data-intensive workloads
Requirements
- Strong hands-on experience with Network File Systems (NFS)
- Deep understanding of distributed file systems
- Experience with object storage
- Production experience with Kubernetes
- Strong Python skills
- Experience working on kernel-level and/or user-space I/O stacks
- Familiarity with NVMe, SSDs, RDMA, and high-speed networking
- A systems mindset: you know how to debug complex performance and reliability issues across layers
You’ll Thrive Here If
- You are energized by low-level systems work
- You like solving problems most engineers avoid because they are too deep, too subtle, or too performance-sensitive
- You care about the details of how storage and networking behave under pressure
- You want your work to matter in environments where performance is mission-critical
This Role is Probably Not for You If
- Your background is primarily general backend, SRE, or platform engineering without deep storage/filesystem ownership
- You’ve used storage systems, but haven’t built or debugged them at a systems level
- You prefer abstraction layers over getting hands-on with performance, I/O paths, and infrastructure internals
- You want a role focused on coordination more than engineering depth
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DataDirect Networks (DDN.com) is a world leader in massively-scalable storage platforms and solutions engineered for the Big Data and Cloud era. Our storage, processing solutions and professional services enable content-rich and high-data growth environments to achieve the highest levels of systems performance, scalability and efficiency.In solving today’s Big Data lifecycle management challenges at scale, DDN enables organizations to maximize the value of their information, everywhere. As the technology behind the world’s leading data-driven organizations, our customers include online content and social networking providers, high performance cloud and grid computing, life sciences, financial services, media production houses and security and intelligence agencies.
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