Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader in AI and high-performance data storage innovation. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the Platform Engineering team, focusing on the design and architecture of Infinia, while ensuring reliable solutions for data-intensive workloads.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow a diverse team of senior and principal engineers focused on distributed storage and platform engineering systems. You will be responsible for hiring, mentoring, career development, and performance management
- Work closely with architects and senior technical leaders to define and drive the technical roadmap for Infinia while understanding the platform implications of product and infrastructure decisions
- Lead the implementation required to support new on-premises and cloud platforms, including hardware qualification, performance characterization, platform bring-up, and feature enablement
- Partner with product management and stakeholders to translate business needs into technical priorities and executable engineering plans
- Define and monitor engineering metrics, SLIs/SLOs, and operational health indicators to improve system availability, durability, and performance at scale
- Establish engineering best practices, development processes, validation strategies, and quality standards to improve product reliability and engineering efficiency
- Drive secure-by-design engineering practices including platform hardening, vulnerability management, and secure software supply chain initiatives
- Manage project execution including scoping, prioritization, staffing, dependency management, risk mitigation, and on-time delivery of strategic initiatives
- Work closely with OEMs, silicon vendors, and infrastructure partners to validate and certify new hardware platforms
- Collaborate with vendors and internal teams to triage, root-cause, and resolve complex hardware, firmware, software, performance, and system integration issues
- Participate in high-priority customer escalations involving performance, reliability, and large-scale distributed systems troubleshooting
- Foster a culture of technical excellence, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning across the organization
Skills
- 20+ years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, distributed systems, or related technical domains
- Proven experience leading high-performing engineering teams in complex infrastructure or distributed systems environments
- Expertise in Linux internals, high-performance storage systems, and distributed systems architecture
- Expertise in platform validation, hardware qualification, system bring-up, and production infrastructure operations
- Experience with system performance analysis, benchmarking, profiling, and troubleshooting across hardware and software layers
- Familiarity with modern datacenter technologies including NVMe, PCIe, RDMA, high-speed Ethernet, and/or InfiniBand
- Proficiency in Golang with working knowledge of Python and automation frameworks
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code technologies such as Terraform or CloudFormation
- Experience with server management technologies such as Redfish, IPMI, BMCs, and platform telemetry systems
- Understanding of infrastructure security, Linux hardening, vulnerability management, and secure platform design principles
- Background working with OEMs, silicon vendors, cloud infrastructure providers, or hyperscale environments
- Experience driving execution in fast-moving and technically complex environments
- Excitement about the future of large-scale distributed storage and data infrastructure systems
- Previous experience in parallel computing, server architecture, storage infrastructure, or datacenter design is highly beneficial
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