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Sustaining Engineer - L4

DDN

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.