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About the Role
This role offers an incredible opportunity to be part of a company at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation. DDN is a global market leader renowned for powering demanding AI data centers across various industries. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company shaping the future of AI and data management.
Responsibilities
- Lead the Access Control Domain, acting as the primary technical authority for user authentication, authorization, and identity logic within our Software Defined Storage solution.
- Drive Architectural Continuity by partnering with senior leadership and domain experts to maintain and evolve core infrastructure.
- Collaborate with security stakeholders to implement best-in-class user access controls that meet compliance standards without compromising system speed.
- Mentor and Document by providing expert code reviews, mentoring mid-level engineers, and creating high-fidelity documentation for identity systems.
- Participate in the Scrum model throughout the full engineering lifecycle, ensuring high regression coverage for sensitive code paths.
- Contribute to the team on-call rotation, providing high-level expertise to support our global distributed footprint.
Requirements
- 12+ years of backend development experience with deep proficiency in Go, C++, or Python, specifically within high-scale distributed systems.
- Specialized expertise in Access Control, including RBAC, ABAC, and Multi-Tenancy models within containerized or orchestrated environments.
- Practical experience with TLS/mTLS, PKI management, certificate lifecycles, and identity protocols such as OAuth2/OIDC.
- Working knowledge of Consul, etcd, or other key/value stores used for service discovery and maintaining global cluster state.
- Ability to bridge the gap between high-level security mandates and practical performance requirements of a storage control plane.
- Proven results working with geographically distributed teams, utilizing asynchronous communication (RFCs, design docs) to drive alignment.
- A history of taking full responsibility for a mission-critical domain, ensuring its long-term health, documentation, and scalability.
- Proven success in developing API servers, controllers, or management layers for storage or compute resources.
- Track record of collaborating with long-tenured experts to institutionalize tribal knowledge and turn it into robust, documented system architecture.
- Experience using Prometheus and OpenTelemetry to ensure identity and control services are visible, performant, and resilient.
- Ability to simplify complex user access challenges into elegant, developer-friendly CLI and API experiences.
Skills
- Go
- C++
- Python
- RBAC
- ABAC
- Multi-Tenancy
- TLS/mTLS
- PKI management
- OAuth2/OIDC
- Consul
- etcd
- Prometheus
- OpenTelemetry
- CLI
- API
Location
- Remote
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Senior Staff
- 12+ years
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000 - $250,000
About the Company
- DataDirect Networks (DDN) has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades.
- DDN 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.
- DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale.
- Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is 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 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.
- Join our dynamic and driven team, where engineering excellence is at the heart of everything we do.
- We seek individuals who love to challenge themselves and are fueled by curiosity.
- Here, you'll have the opportunity to work across various areas of the company, thanks to our flat organizational structure that encourages hands-on involvement and direct contributions to our mission.
- Leadership is earned by those who take initiative and consistently deliver outstanding results, both in their work ethic and deliverables, making strong prioritization skills essential.
- Additionally, we value strong communication skills in all our engineers and researchers, as they are crucial for the success of our teams and the company as a whole.
Equal Opportunity
- DataDirect Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.
- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.