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DDNThis Staff Engineer will build and maintain Rust software, APIs, and monitoring capabilities for DDN’s storage products. The role also covers CI/CD collaboration, customer escalations, and work with a distributed engineering team.
Skills & Expertise
Key Responsibilities
Design and maintain Rust libraries, product features, command-line tools, and REST APIs.
Build telemetry and monitoring capabilities and maintain Jenkins-based CI/CD pipelines.
Investigate customer escalations, resolve performance issues, and document engineering knowledge.
Full Description
Responsibilities
• Design, develop, and maintain software libraries and features in Rust .
• Build and maintain CLI and REST API interfaces for internal and customer-facing tools.
• Develop and integrate telemetry, observability, and monitoring solutions to improve product reliability and customer support.
• Write and maintain unit tests, functional tests, and automation scripts to ensure robust deliverables.
• Collaborate with Engineering Managers and a geographically distributed team to understand requirements and translate them into scalable software solutions.
• Work with QA and DevOps teams to configure and maintain the Jenkins-based build and CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist in debugging and resolving customer escalations, including performance and stability issues.
• Contribute to product documentation and knowledge sharing within the engineering team.
Qualifications
• BS/MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent degree/experience.
• 7+ years of experience working in Linux system environments, with a solid understanding of Linux internals.
• Strong experience in Rust is required
• 3+ years of experience with enterprise-class or HPC storage systems and/or distributed systems.
• Hands-on experience building telemetry and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry, custom monitoring agents).
• Strong experience developing and maintaining command-line tools and REST APIs.
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI, or similar.
• Knowledge of parallel file systems, particularly IBM Spectrum Scale (GPFS) or Lustre, is highly preferred.
• Experience with bash, Lua, and automation scripting is a plus.
• Prior exposure to Agile software development processes.
• Strong debugging, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills in complex, distributed environments.
• Excellent time management, communication, and collaboration skills in a fast-paced, globally distributed team.