Staff Software Engineer

DDN

full-time

Posted on: 8/27/2025

Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado

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💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year

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AnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

DDN is a global leader in AI and high-performance data storage, accelerating AI workloads
DDN’s Next Generation Data Services Platform: intelligent resource management, real time analytics, mobile-era UX
Hands-on Staff Software Engineer to design and build the data management platform
Participate in design and development of Data Services and Software Defined Storage solution
Conceptualize original ideas to simplify complex design challenges and user scenarios
Participate in full product development lifecycle within Scrum: planning, design, code, test, usability reviews, release and maintenance
Position requires participation in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support as needed.

8+ years development experience, with recent experience in Go, Python or C++
Distributed systems engineering experience, with working knowledge of containers, storage solutions, high performance systems
Expertise in IaC solutions (like Terraform)
Hands on experience with Docker deployments and orchestration
Experience with platform deployment tools (Ansible, MAAS, cobbler)
Advanced skill in Linux, including networking, filesystems and block storage
Experience working with geographically distributed teams
Demonstrated results of innovative thinking and delivery
Experience developing REST API/CLIs for storage or computation resources management
Experience in platform management, working with baremetal systems as well as cloud
A proven ability to own and deliver features in a fast paced environment
Strong testing skills to ensure new feature and regression coverage
Ability to both operate and make progress independently
Experience working on developer tooling
Deep understanding of Storage Design Thinking (ideation, prototyping, testing, design frameworks and concept visualization)