Senior Staff Software Engineer - SMB

We are looking for a Senior SW Engineer to join our team and contribute to the development of SMB/S3 protocols. This role offers the opportunity to work on a variety of fast-moving projects, tackling complex technical challenges in distributed storage, high-performance computing, and large-scale data management.

Qualifications:

·       Expertise and a genuine interest in client and server development on network protocols.

Development experience on clusters, distributed systems, distributed file systems and storage data management.

·       Development experience with protocols like SMB/CIFS, S3 and/or NFS.

Development experience in C/C++ or related system level languages.

·       Strong understanding of operating system fundamentals.

Strong algorithm and logic development skills using data structures.

·       Experience debugging complex issues in an HA (Highly Available) distributed environment.

Experience integrating and troubleshooting open-source packages.

·       Working knowledge of source control management systems such as git.

·       Experience delivering and supporting features across multiple releases and multiple concurrent development branches.

Additional Desired Skills:

·       Understanding of the fundamentals of RPC, Kerberos and/or name services protocols like DNS, LDAP, AD and NIS.

·       Experience and proficiency with other distributed file systems like Lustre, Gluster, Ceph, GPFS, etc.

·       Demonstrated contributions to relevant open-source projects.

·       Experience with distributed systems building blocks like virtual machines, containers, Kubernetes, Kafka or other event streaming databases.

·       Networking domain knowledge.

·       Experience with debugging tools such as GDB, KDB, ASAN, Valgrind, Perf, and in particular, real-time debugging and analysis using eBPF.

·       Familiarity with deploying virtual machines in AWS, Azure, and/or Google Cloud storage environments.

     To the extent required by state or local hiring regulations, we will consider for employment any qualified applicant, including those with arrest and conviction records, in a manner consistent with the applicable regulation.

The anticipated base salary range for this role is $180,000 to $240,000. Actual compensation will be determined by several factors including, but not limited to, level of professional/education experience, skills/abilities, internal equity, and budgetary considerations. In addition, Hammerspace offers a broad range of health plans for medical, dental, vision, life and disability. We also offer 401k plans and flexible time off. Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.

Hammerspace is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, disability, military status, or national origin or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

Notice to Recruiters and Staffing Agencies:

Agencies are hereby specifically directed not to contact Hammerspace employees directly in an attempt to present candidates. To protect the interests of all parties, Hammerspace will not accept unsolicited resumes from any source other than directly from a candidate. Any unsolicited resumes sent to Hammerspace will be considered Hammerspace property. Hammerspace will not pay a fee for any placement resulting from the receipt of an unsolicited resume. Hammerspace will consider any candidate for whom an Agency has submitted an unsolicited resume to have been referred by the Agency free of any charges or fees.

Agency must obtain advance written approval from Hammerspace’s recruiting function to submit resumes, and then only in conjunction with a valid fully-executed contract for service and in response to a specific job opening. Hammerspace will not pay a fee to any Agency that does not have such agreement in place.