Senior Platform Engineer

DDN

Senior Platform Engineer supporting deployment and operation of solutions at DDN. Focusing on system reliability across storage, compute, and networking infrastructure.

Posted 5/18/2026full-timeRemote • California • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $105,146 - $195,773 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

GoLinux

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Perform system bring-up and validation, including BIOS configuration, firmware updates, and OS-level checks.
Configure and verify platform settings (BIOS, BMC, OS) to ensure systems meet performance, reliability and consistency standards.
Execute and validate firmware updates across components, including NVMe drives, NICs, and system firmware.
Identify and troubleshoot issues related to: Device initialization and visibility.
Firmware mismatches or upgrade failures.
Misconfigurations impacting performance or stability.
Understand, define, and test procedures for: Drive swaps and rebuilds.
Data integrity and system health checks.
Minimizing impact to running systems.
Monitor and validate storage device health, including basic performance characteristics and failure indicators.
Work with Linux systems to verify configuration, collect diagnostics, and assist in debugging issues.
Collaborate with senior engineers to escalate and help triage complex cross-layer issues.
Contribute to documentation and standardization of bring-up, validation, and operational procedures.

Requirements

What you’ll need

5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform-focused engineering roles.
Comfortable working directly with hardware and firmware, including BIOS, BMC, and device-level tools.
Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
Familiarity with storage and networking fundamentals (NVMe, NICs, basic I/O concepts).
Experience performing and supporting firmware updates, with awareness of risk and failure scenarios.
Good scripting skills; familiarity with Go is a plus.
Strong attention to detail, able to verify configurations and catch subtle issues.
Willingness to learn and grow into deeper system, performance, and debugging responsibilities.
Curiosity about why systems perform the way they do: investigate, rather than just run scripts blindly.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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High Performance Computing DDN is a global leader in AI data intelligence solutions, providing high-performance computing and sophisticated data management technologies. With a focus on accelerating AI deployments and advanced data analytics, DDN's products, including the Data Intelligence Platform and advanced storage systems, serve diverse sectors such as healthcare, financial services, and government. DDN is committed to transforming enterprise data infrastructure to leverage the full potential of AI and drive operational efficiency. Senior Platform Engineer 🔥 4 minutes ago 🏄 California – Remote 💵 $105.1k - $195.8k / year ⏰ Full Time 🟠 Senior 🏗️ Platform Engineer 🦅 H1B Visa Sponsor Linux Go Apply Now Find Hiring Managers Customize resume + cover letter Report problem ☆ Save ☑️ Mark as applied ❌ Hide 📋 Description
Perform system bring-up and validation, including BIOS configuration, firmware updates, and OS-level checks.
Configure and verify platform settings (BIOS, BMC, OS) to ensure systems meet performance, reliability and consistency standards.
Execute and validate firmware updates across components, including NVMe drives, NICs, and system firmware.
Identify and troubleshoot issues related to: Device initialization and visibility.
Firmware mismatches or upgrade failures.
Misconfigurations impacting performance or stability.
Understand, define, and test procedures for: Drive swaps and rebuilds.
Data integrity and system health checks.
Minimizing impact to running systems.
Monitor and validate storage device health, including basic performance characteristics and failure indicators.
Work with Linux systems to verify configuration, collect diagnostics, and assist in debugging issues.
Collaborate with senior engineers to escalate and help triage complex cross-layer issues.
Contribute to documentation and standardization of bring-up, validation, and operational procedures. 🎯 Requirements
5+ years of experience in systems, infrastructure, or platform-focused engineering roles.
Comfortable working directly with hardware and firmware, including BIOS, BMC, and device-level tools.
Solid understanding of Linux systems administration and troubleshooting.
Familiarity with storage and networking fundamentals (NVMe, NICs, basic I/O concepts).
Experience performing and supporting firmware updates, with awareness of risk and failure scenarios.
Good scripting skills; familiarity with Go is a plus.
Strong attention to detail, able to verify configurations and catch subtle issues.
Willingness to learn and grow into deeper system, performance, and debugging responsibilities.
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Hard Skills & Tools

BIOS configurationfirmware updatesOS-level checksLinux systems administrationtroubleshootingscriptingNVMeNICsdata integritysystem health checks

Soft Skills

attention to detailcuriositycollaborationproblem-solvingwillingness to learn