Tintri
Sr. Technical Support Engineer (L3 Engineering) - Hybrid
Tintri, Columbia, MD
Overview
DDN Storage is seeking great candidates to join our dynamic team of passionate customer-enabling technologists!
This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DDN Storage is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.
"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." - IDC
"The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments" - ~ Marc Hamilton VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA
DDN Storage is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge storage and data management solutions are designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN Storage empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.
Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.
Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.
Job Description
DataDirect Networks Inc. (DDN) engineering organization is seeking a highly focused, self-motivated, innovative, and goal-oriented engineer to fill the role of "Sr. Software Engineer" for its "Continuation Engineering and Level 3 Engineering Support" team. The prospective candidate must have good analytical and debugging skills in Linux/ Virtualization environments to help the technical support team to resolve technically challenging customer issues. The primary role involves system level troubleshooting, debugging & root cause analysis of DDN Storage Solutions as well as triage customer issues escalated by Technical Support teams & Professional Services. This is a multifaceted role that require collaboration with other team members, developers, technical support personnel as well as with other product teams who are spread around the globe.
This is hybrid position based in Columbia, MD office.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Minimum Requirements:
Essential/Desirable Technical Requirements:
Preferred Technical Requirements:
Education:
Target Salary: $130,000/YR
DDN Storage is seeking great candidates to join our dynamic team of passionate customer-enabling technologists!
This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DDN Storage is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.
"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." - IDC
"The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments" - ~ Marc Hamilton VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA
DDN Storage is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge storage and data management solutions are designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN Storage empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.
Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.
Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.
Job Description
DataDirect Networks Inc. (DDN) engineering organization is seeking a highly focused, self-motivated, innovative, and goal-oriented engineer to fill the role of "Sr. Software Engineer" for its "Continuation Engineering and Level 3 Engineering Support" team. The prospective candidate must have good analytical and debugging skills in Linux/ Virtualization environments to help the technical support team to resolve technically challenging customer issues. The primary role involves system level troubleshooting, debugging & root cause analysis of DDN Storage Solutions as well as triage customer issues escalated by Technical Support teams & Professional Services. This is a multifaceted role that require collaboration with other team members, developers, technical support personnel as well as with other product teams who are spread around the globe.
This is hybrid position based in Columbia, MD office.
Responsibilities include but are not limited to:
- Triage, diagnose, and troubleshoot problems with DDN's storage systems in customer production environments.
- Take ownership of customer cases, validate technical aspects, and drive it to resolution with root cause and necessary modifications to the product.
- Provide engineering support to Professional Services, Technical Support and directly to customers.
- Provide hands on assistance with field escalations.
- Strategically analyze field issues and generate product features to improve product quality and useability.
- Understand customer requirements and work towards enhancing the product quality and customer experience by improving reliability, serviceability & usability.
- Collaborate, coordinate feature development & timely release of software patches targeting customer reported field issues.
- Review the product documents and provide necessary feedback for both internal and external customer needs
- Conduct product & features training session to Technical Support & Professional Service groups.
- Clearly communicate complex technical topics to the varied knowledge levels of customers.
- Ability to multi-task and manage competing priorities, ensuring all objectives are accomplished.
- Provide on-call assistance (outside of regular working hours) as needed during critical customer issues.
- Collaborate with peers located around the globe.
Minimum Requirements:
- More than 5 years of hands on experience in software development and product support.
- Software development with strong C programming.
- Deep & a strong understanding of operating system architecture & principles including the requirements of real time systems.
- Well versed with Linux internals, kernel level coding & debugging, conversant with GDB and Linux device drivers.
- Understand the complexities & challenges in the high-speed parallel data transmission including but not limited to SAS, Fibre Channel & InfiniBand topologies.
- Excellent analytical and methodical problem-solving skills especially with complex HW/SW interaction problems on a typical high end embedded platform.
- Thrives and enjoys working in a high-paced, high demanding, fast-changing work environment.
- Strong communication skills (both written and verbal).
- Experience working with cross-functional and remote teams.
Essential/Desirable Technical Requirements:
- Experience in working directly with customers and other technical team members regarding technical issues with critical customer impact.
- Ability to manage complex customer issues, take ownership & drive them until final resolution.
- Prior experience in interfacing with customers in helping them troubleshoot product problems during install and production.
- Knowledge of storage products, cloud storage, cloud computing, data center operations.
- Knowledge of Infiniband and Fibre channel technologies.
- Knowledge of large-scale file systems like GPFS, Lustre or other parallel file systems.
- Proven collaborative skills and a solid team player.
- Demonstrated experience in handling technical issues with customer's installation
- Experience and flexibility in working across countries and different time zones.
Preferred Technical Requirements:
- Knowledge of assembly language, C++, Perl & Python.
- Demonstrable understanding of data storage concepts: RAID/Erasure Coding, block storage, parallel file systems, etc.
- Understand the complexities & challenges in the high-speed parallel data transmission including but not limited to SAS, SCSI, NVME Fabric, IP over IB, Fibre Channel & InfiniBand topologies.
- Understand, interpret industry standards & protocols, specifications from ISO/IEC, RFCs and be able to translate into software specifications.
Education:
- A Bachelor's or higher engineering degree in Computer/Electrical/Electronics/Instrumentation Engineering or equivalent.
Target Salary: $130,000/YR