
Sustaining Engineer - L4
DDN
- Santa Clara, United States
- On-site
- $185K – $250K /yr
- Mid Level
- Posted
Responsibilities
- Communicate technical issues clearly to customers, engineers and senior stakeholders, including executive audiences.
- Own complex customer escalations from diagnosis through to resolution, mitigation and RCA.
- Lead live incident response, war rooms and cross-functional investigations with Engineering, QA and Field teams.
- Debug complex distributed-systems, storage and performance issues across the system, protocol and application layers.
- Reproduce customer issues and feed findings into product and reliability improvements.
- Develop runbooks, troubleshooting guidance and performance-tuning practices.
- Act as a technical authority on Infinia internals, mentoring engineers and influencing architectural best practice.
- Partner with Field CTOs, Solutions Architects and Sales Engineers on strategic customer issues.
- Use AI, automation and observability to improve diagnostics, reliability and MTTR.
- Communicate technical issues clearly to customers, engineers and senior stakeholders, including executive audiences.
- This position requires participation in an on-call rotation to provide after-hours support as needed.
Requirements
- Significant experience in enterprise storage, distributed systems or cloud infrastructure, with technical leadership at Senior or Staff level.
- Deep understanding of file systems and storage technologies, including S3, POSIX, NFS and storage performance.
- Strong Linux systems knowledge, including kernel-level troubleshooting and debugging.
- Strong coding ability in Python or C++.
- Proven ability to diagnose complex issues using tools such as strace, tcpdump and perf.
- Genuine interest in working directly with customers and taking ownership of complex problems through to resolution.
Preferred
- Experience with DDN, VAST, Weka or similar scale-out storage/file systems.
- Familiarity with observability platforms such as Prometheus, Grafana, ELK or OpenTelemetry.
- Knowledge of replication, consistency models and data integrity mechanisms.
- Experience supporting AI/ML, LLM training or other high-performance computing environments.
- Experience using AI tools for log analysis, troubleshooting, automated RCA or reducing MTTR.