Senior Staff Engineer, Lustre

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🏄 California – Remote

🏄 California – Remote

💵 $215k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

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DDN

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1998

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

💰 $10M Funding Round on 2011-06

Artificial Intelligence • Data Center and Cloud Computing • 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.

📋 Description

• Provide deep technical leadership across LustreFS subsystems including llite, MDS/MDT, OSS/OST, LDLM, recovery and LNet. • Own complex root-cause analysis for difficult customer, scale and production issues across kernel, filesystem, network and transport layers. • Lead design and implementation of new features, reliability improvements, scale enhancements and performance optimizations in LustreFS. • Drive architectural reviews for kernel-space and user-space changes with strong attention to correctness, backward compatibility and operability. • Define debugging and observability strategies for complex distributed failure scenarios including failover, recovery storms, lock contention and transport degradation. • Partner with principal engineers, support, QE, DevOps and release teams to improve product quality, test depth and release confidence. • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers; create structured learning paths, review standards and subsystem ownership models to build redundancy. • Promote use of AI-assisted workflows for issue triage, log analysis, code review assistance, knowledge capture and design acceleration with appropriate engineering guardrails.

🎯 Requirements

• 15+ years of experience in distributed systems, filesystems, Linux kernel development or storage infrastructure engineering. • Strong hands-on expertise in LustreFS internals and production operations, including one or more of: metadata services, object storage services, client/llite, locking, recovery or LNet. • Strong C systems programming skills and deep Linux debugging experience using tools such as gdb, crash, perf, ftrace, eBPF, systemtap and core analysis. • Strong understanding of Linux kernel concurrency, memory management, I/O paths, networking and performance tuning. • Experience with high-performance networking and transports such as InfiniBand, RDMA, RoCE and/or TCP at scale. • Proven ability to diagnose complex cross-layer issues spanning kernel, storage, networking and distributed coordination. • Experience leading design discussions, code reviews and subsystem-level technical decisions. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills with the ability to guide senior technical audiences and influence cross-functional teams.

🏖️ Benefits

• Career development opportunities • Flexible work arrangements • Health insurance • Paid time off • Professional development