Enterprise Storage Architect

Overview

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. Data Direct Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." – IDC

“The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments” - Marc Hamilton, VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management  cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.

Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.

DDN is currently seeking an Enterprise Storage Software Architect to design new software features and enhance existing code for our line of At Scale and Enterprise Storage Products.

The ideal candidate will have experience in storage product engineering, including depth in storage interconnects and protocols (Ethernet, IB, Fibre Channel, NFS, SMB, S3, iSCSI), system architecture, storage internals, performance modeling, storage management paradigms and virtualization. The candidate must have exceptional leadership capabilities, strong software design and development skills and demonstrate expert-level coding skills in C, C++ and application of object-oriented programming concepts.

Experience in agile development and use of test automation/Dev Ops is highly desirable. The candidate will be responsible for software design at all levels of the software stack, leading in quality both by example and through peer review. The candidate will be expected to work closely with other team leaders, members, product management and key field personnel to deliver features that will meet internal and external expectations.

What will you bring to the DDN Innovators….

• Deep understanding of the state of the art and the future of Enterprise Datacenter Storage Architectures, including next generation File Systems, cloud workflows and enterprise storage services
• You know what it means to be truly Enterprise and can articulate the value of your vision convincingly
• Experience working with datacenter devops and administrative teams in companies of various sizes, understanding cloud workflows that require and utilize enterprise infrastructure and features
• Technical leadership for the definition, design and implementation of world class software suites and enterprise cloud services
• An Enterprise, end-user focused approach to managing storage services that assumes an always-on, low-touch, best-in-class user experience tightly integrated to GUI front-ends
• Recognition as a leader with ability to build strong working relationships with cross-functional teams to leverage the latest technology innovations into enterprise quality customer solutions
• “Startup” experience in terms of iterating quickly on product/market fit, including customer development and the wisdom and humility to know when to apply your own industry experience versus when to stop and ask the users

What have you achieved…

• A Reputation for leveraging as well as developing the latest Enterprise technology innovations into concrete highly differentiated customer…