Senior / Staff NFS Engineer

DDN · Santa Clara Colocation, United States · FullTime · Remote · October 02, 2026

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Why this role is compelling

At DDN, you will work on problems that sit at the heart of modern infrastructure:

  • Scaling and optimizing Network File Systems
  • Building and improving distributed file systems and object storage
  • Tuning performance across kernel-level and user-space I/O stacks
  • Working with NVMe, SSDs, RDMA, and high-speed networking
  • Integrating storage platforms into Kubernetes-native environments
  • Using Python to automate, debug, test, and improve complex systems

Your work will directly influence how high-performance data platforms behave under real-world load, not just in theory.

What you’ll do

  • Design, build, and optimize features across DDN’s NFS and storage stack
  • Diagnose bottlenecks across file systems, storage media, networking, and I/O paths
  • Improve performance, scalability, and resiliency in distributed storage environments
  • Work across kernel-space and user-space components to solve hard systems problems
  • Collaborate with engineers across storage, systems, and platform layers
  • Develop tooling and automation in Python to improve observability, testing, and operations
  • Help shape the next generation of infrastructure for AI and data-intensive workloads

What we’re looking for

  • Strong hands-on experience with Network File Systems (NFS)
  • Deep understanding of distributed file systems
  • Experience with object storage
  • Production experience with Kubernetes
  • Strong Python skills
  • Experience working on kernel-level and/or user-space I/O stacks
  • Familiarity with NVMe, SSDs, RDMA, and high-speed networking
  • A systems mindset: you know how to debug complex performance and reliability issues across layers

You’ll thrive here if

  • You are energized by low-level systems work
  • You like solving problems most engineers avoid because they are too deep, too subtle, or too performance-sensitive
  • You care about the details of how storage and networking behave under pressure
  • You want your work to matter in environments where performance is mission-critical

This role is probably not for you if

  • Your background is primarily general backend, SRE, or platform engineering without deep storage/filesystem ownership
  • You’ve used storage systems, but haven’t built or debugged them at a systems level
  • You prefer abstraction layers over getting hands-on with performance, I/O paths, and infrastructure internals
  • You want a role focused on coordination more than engineering depth
Employer
DDN
Location
Santa Clara Colocation, United States · Remote
Contract
FullTime