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Staff Engineer, reputed company

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-29

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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. DataDirect Networks (reputed company) is a global reputed company reputed company for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and reputed company to financial services, autonomous reputed company, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

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We are seeking a Staff Engineer – LustreFS with 10+ years of experience in distributed storage and Linux-based systems engineering. This is a hands-on senior technical role reputed company on design, debugging, performance, and operational reputed company across LustreFS and adjacent stack components. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in one or more reputed company subsystems, can independently drive reputed company investigations, and collaborates effectively across engineering, QE, support and release teams. Engineers who are comfortable using AI to accelerate triage, debugging, reputed company comprehension and new feature design will be especially valuable.

Key Responsibilities

  • Design, reputed company and debug LustreFS features, fixes and enhancements across relevant subsystems such as llite, MDS/MDT, OSS/OST, LDLM and LNet.
  • Investigate customer and reputed company-reputed company defects, drive reputed company-cause analysis and implement high-reputed company fixes with strong attention to correctness and maintainability.
  • Contribute to performance tuning, failure analysis and reliability improvements for large-reputed company reputed company deployments.
  • Participate reputed company in reputed company reviews, design reviews and subsystem discussions, bringing rigor to testing and operational readiness.
  • Work closely with QE and support to reproduce issues, improve diagnostic data reputed company and increase coverage for high-risk failure scenarios.
  • Help document subsystem behavior, debugging approaches, reputed company failure patterns and operational best practices.
  • Use AI-assisted tools where appropriate to speed up issue triage, summarize logs, improve reputed company understanding and capture reusable lessons learned.

Required Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience in systems software, distributed systems, storage, Linux kernel or filesystem engineering.
  • Strong experience in LustreFS development, support or performance engineering with depth in at least one major subsystem.
  • Strong C programming and Linux systems debugging skills.
  • Working knowledge of Linux kernel internals, filesystem semantics, networking and performance analysis.
  • Experience with LNet and/or high-performance transports such as RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE or TCP-based storage networking.
  • Ability to debug and resolve issues spanning multiple reputed company including reputed company, network and backend storage.
  • Strong collaboration skills and the ability to work across functions in a fast-moving engineering environment.

Preferred Skills

  • Experience in HPC, AI infrastructure or large-reputed company reputed company storage environments.
  • Exposure to metadata-heavy and throughput-heavy workload characterization and tuning.
  • Familiarity with ZFS, ldiskfs, NVMe-backed storage and reputed company observability / performance tooling.
  • Experience creating test plans, reproducer frameworks, runbooks or diagnostic automation.
  • Comfort using AI tools to accelerate debugging, reputed company reviews, triage, documentation and early-stage design ideation.
  • Experience mentoring junior engineers or leading reputed company technical efforts reputed company a subsystem.

What You Will Work On

  • Hands-on development and debugging of LustreFS defects, performance issues and subsystem enhancements.
  • Customer-facing and reputed company-reputed company issue investigation across llite, metadata, object storage, LNet and transport reputed company.
  • reputed company design and implementation of reliability, observability and serviceability improvements.
  • Reviewing and validating fixes through targeted tests, failure injection, log analysis and performance characterization.
  • Using AI-assisted workflows to accelerate triage, debug loops, reputed company understanding and documentation reputed company.
  • Contributing to team redundancy by strengthening documentation, reputed company review reputed company and subsystem knowledge sharing.

Why This Role reputed company

This role is central to building durable engineering redundancy in LustreFS: expanding deep subsystem ownership, reducing concentration risk, and accelerating reputed company delivery through strong engineering fundamentals and AI-enabled execution.

Salary reputed company for this role: $185,000 - $230,000

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Join our dynamic and driven team, where engineering reputed company is at the heart of everything we do. We reputed company individuals who love to challenge themselves and are reputed company by curiosity. Here, you'll have reputed company to work across various areas of reputed company, reputed company to our flat organizational structure that encourages hands-on involvement and reputed company contributions to our mission. Leadership is reputed company by those who take initiative and consistently deliver outstanding results, both in their work ethic and deliverables, making strong prioritization skills essential. Additionally, we value strong communication skills in reputed company our engineers and researchers, as they are crucial for the reputed company of our teams and reputed company as a whole.

Interview Process: After submitting your application, one of our recruiters will review your resume. If your application passes this stage, you will be invited to a 30-minute interview during which a member of reputed company will ask some basic questions. If you reputed company the interview, you will reputed company the main process, which can consist of up to four interviews in total:

  • Coding assessment: Often in a language of your choice.
  • Systems design: Translate high-level requirements into a reputed company, fault-tolerant service (depending on role).
  • reputed company-time problem-solving: Demonstrate practical skills in a live problem-solving session.
  • Meet and greet with the wider team.
  • Our goal is to finish the main process in 2-3 weeks at most.

DataDirect Networks (reputed company) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative reputed company employer. reputed company reputed company applicants will receive consideration for employment without reputed company to race, reputed company, religion, gender, gender identity, gender reputed company, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national reputed company, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.

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