Staff Engineer

What You’ll Do

Build datacenter software technologies and expertise to drive Samsung memory technologies and innovations for use in public and private clouds by leveraging the benefits of memory innovations.

As a key member of the Storage Software team, you will be responsible for designing and developing software for a state-of-the-art distributed storage system. As a storage IO path developer, you will play a key role in the design, development and optimization of the IO path within our distributed storage systems. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure that our storage solutions deliver exceptional performance, scalability and reliability.

The successful candidate must be a strong team player, have excellent communication skills and should have experience developing Linux-based highly available distributed systems, with a focus on performance and quality. This staff level senior role involves significant responsibility and requires creativity, leadership as well as passion to build high performance flash-based storage systems.

Location: Hybrid, working onsite at our San Jose office/headquarters 2-3 days per week with the flexibility to work remotely the remainder of your time.

Reports to: Director, Software Development

Job ID: 42068

What You Bring

• Bachelors with 10+ years of relevant industry experience, or Masters with 8+ years or PhD with 5+ years in Computer Science or related field preferred.
• 10+ years of C/C++ development experience in Linux environment. Experience working with Python is desired.
• BS/MS Computer Science or equivalent with a minimum of 10+ years of experience developing enterprise software solutions in C/C++ on Linux.
• Strong foundation in algorithms & data structures is required.
• Experience working in distributed, scale-out fault-tolerant applications is highly desired.
• Development experience with S3 object storage protocols that enables design and develop new features and enhancements for object storage protocol and optimize performance and reliability.
• Collaborate with software engineers to integrate object storage protocol functionality into our distributed storage system.
• Experience using distributed data structures and consensus algorithms desired.
• Knowledge of open source server-side software such as ZeroMQ, RocksDB, Ceph, Elasticsearch, Key/Value (KV) stores desired. Use of open source tools, such as gcc, git, and bugzilla, is desired.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to diagnose complex performance issues and implement effective solutions.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment.
• You’re inclusive, adapting your style to the situation and diverse global norms of our people.
• An avid learner, you approach challenges with curiosity and resilience, seeking data to help build understanding.
• You’re collaborative, building relationships, humbly offering support and openly welcoming approaches.
• Innovative and creative, you proactively explore new ideas and adapt quickly to change.

#LI-KD1