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title: "Staff Engineer - Performance"
company: "DDN"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/ddn"
url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/ddn-staff-engineer-performance-6cec79cc-232c-4d74-89db-7d94b728e8e6"
apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/d29f8528-2d59-42ba-90a9-a767260b4a5d"
workplace: onsite
location: "Pune Office"
employment_type: full-time
seniority: staff
role: software-engineering
region: india
skills: ["gcp", "linux", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-09-04T07:01:23.461Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T14:59:51.256Z
---

# Staff Engineer - Performance

**DDN** · Pune Office

Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/ddn/d29f8528-2d59-42ba-90a9-a767260b4a5d

## About the role

**$2**

**Key Responsibilities**

• 12+ years systems/storage performance engineering at staff/principal level.

• Deep Linux storage I/O path and kernel module profiling/tuning.

• Distributed storage benchmarking at scale (fio, file-system tools).

• NVMe/NVMe-oF, block-device internals, erasure coding / RAID data paths.

• RDMA (RoCEv2/InfiniBand), TCP offload, NUMA-aware tuning.

• C, Python, and Linux perf tooling (perf, ftrace, eBPF, flamegraphs).

• Add build gating and smoke-test stages so broken builds never reach QE.

**Preferred Skills:**

• Lustre performance (LNet, OSTs/MDTs, obdfilter-survey, client fio).

• Software-defined NVMe-oF / distributed block storage internals.

• Cloud bare-metal (OCI/GCP), dense NVMe platforms.

• OFED/MOFED/DOCA driver evaluation, ConnectX-class NIC tuning.

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