Senior Staff Engineer

CompanyDDN has spent 25+ years building the infrastructure behind the world's most demanding computing environments - powering 48 of the top 100 supercomputers. Backed by $300M from Blackstone at a $5B valuation and deep partnerships with NVIDIA, Supermicro, and Google Cloud, we're moving faster than ever. The AI boom has created unprecedented demand for exactly the kind of high-performance storage DDN has spent decades perfecting.The RoleThis role sits right at the center of that momentum. We're building our next-generation storage platform - designed from the ground up to solve the problems our existing products haven't fully cracked. You won't be maintaining someone else's architecture. You'll be defining it.On paper this is a "Staff Software Engineer" role. In practice, you're the architect. You'll own the design of our cloud control plane - the web application layer, the cloud services, observability, supportability - the whole nervous system that sits above our on-prem storage. And when something's genuinely hard and an engineer is stuck, you're the person who rolls up their sleeves and fixes it yourself.You will: Define and drive the architecture of a cloud-hosted control plane, including containerization, microservices, and orchestrationParticipate in the implementation of scalable software defined storage componentsDrive design discussions, build prototypes and contribute to deliver high quality productsConduct code reviews and improve scalability, stability, reliability and performance of solutions.Collaborate with your teammates and integrate a group of passionate developers in an outcome-oriented environment.Work closely with program management in the successful delivery of product releasesContribute to and validate product documentationEffectively manage, engage and complete projects as they are assigned to the roleProvide regular reports on project progress and activity updatesAbility to travel as may be required from time to time (e.g. for team meetings, training)Experience:10+ years of software development experience across file systems, concurrency, distributed systems, or server architectureStrong hands-on experience with C/C++ on Linux/UNIX systemsDirect experience with scale-out, high-availability storage solutionsComfort spanning both cloud-native architecture and on-premises infrastructure realitiesDeep storage or file-system knowledge (e.g. Lustre, GPFS) is valued but not mandatory - candidates with strong architectural range and hands-on ability, and some storage exposure, are equally encouraged to applyThis is an opportunity to shape a new product from its architectural foundation, within a company with genuine history, credibility, and current momentum.Compensation Range: $225K - $275KLocationSanta Clara Colocation; Remote - North CarolinaEmployment TypeFull timeLocation TypeHybridDepartmentDepartmentEngineeringEngineeringExaScaler EngineeringCompensation$225K – $275K • Offers Equity • Offers Bonus