Senior Software Engineer - Backend

About the role

We are looking for a Senior Backend Software Engineer to join the Control Plane team of the DDN Infinia AI Data Platform. You will design and build highly scalable, secure, and resilient backend services that power centralized orchestration, lifecycle management, and policy enforcement across large hybrid environments.

Key responsibilities

• Design and implement distributed, high‑performance backend services for the control plane.
• Develop versioned, extensible APIs (REST/gRPC) for storage and compute management.
• Build resilient microservices with strong consistency, fault tolerance, and low latency at petabyte scale.
• Own API lifecycle, including versioning, deprecation, and documentation.
• Implement policy‑driven orchestration, IaC integrations, RBAC, multi‑tenancy, and self‑service capabilities.
• Instrument services with logs, metrics, traces, and alerts for deep observability.
• Design secure‑by‑design systems with authentication, authorization, encryption, and audit logging.
• Collaborate on disaster recovery, zero‑downtime upgrades, and compliance with enterprise standards.

Required profile

• 8+ years of experience in backend or distributed systems engineering.
• Proven experience designing microservices architectures and building large‑scale distributed systems.
• Strong knowledge of security principles, authentication, authorization, and encryption.
• Experience with cloud‑native, containerized environments and Kubernetes.
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated testing frameworks.

Required skills

• Go, C++, Java, Python
• REST and gRPC API design
• Kubernetes and container orchestration
• Cloud‑native architecture
• Distributed systems concepts (consistency, availability, partition tolerance)
• Security (auth, authz, encryption)
• CI/CD pipelines
• Object‑oriented design, data structures, algorithms