Staff Software Engineer - Platform Management

DDN

full-time

Posted on: 9/5/2025

Location: Colorado • 🇺🇸 United States

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💰 $160,000 - $200,000 per year

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AnsibleCloudDistributed SystemsDockerGoLinuxPythonTerraform

About the role

Participate in the design and development of our Data Services and Software Defined Storage solution
Conceptualize original ideas that bring simplicity and user friendliness to complex design challenges and user scenarios
Led the design of our platform management effort, targeting an user-friendly experience when deploying Infinia on a variety of platforms.
Within the Scrum model, participate in full product development lifecycle including planning, design, code, test, usability reviews, release and maintenance
This position requires participation in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support as needed.

8+ years of development experience and platform management, 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 Ansible, Terraform) to improve quality, consistency, reliability and deployment efficiency.
Hands on experience with Docker deployments and orchestration
Experience implementing, deploying and maintaining storage solutions across distributed systems.
Experience with platform deployment tools (Ansible, MAAS, cobbler)
Advanced skill in Linux, including networking, filesystems and block storage
Experience working with geographically distributed teams
Experience in platform management, working with baremetal systems as well as cloud
Experience developing REST API/CLIs for storage or computation resources management
Led the adoption of standardized solutions across organizations to automate infrastructure and software management
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)
Demonstrated results of innovative thinking and delivery