Senior Software Engineer (C++ NFS)

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

The role

We are recruiting a Senior Software Engineer to work as part of the development team in Hitachi Vantara Engineering, who are responsible for designing, developing and testing the Hitachi NAS Platform product (https://www.hitachivantara.com/en-us/products/storage/network-attached-storage-platform.html) and other future products.

An ideal candidate will understand the entire process of creating software and be involved with the complete development-test cycle. This involves being an integral part of an agile scrum team that that is multi-disciplinary with software, testing, FPGA and hardware skills, producing high quality functional software and unit testing.

As a senior engineer, the candidate will play a leading role in shaping the design of solutions, even acting as architect. They will be key to the prioritization, development, testing and integration of assigned deliverables. This will involve tackling problems of diverse scope, designing and implementing complex software while ensuring quality of the product remains high.

A successful candidate must have a proven track record of delivering complex software solutions, and a demonstrable understanding of the software lifecycle. They will also have an inquisitive mind, an openness to new ideas, an excellent attention to detail and an adaptability to change. Strong verbal and written communication skills are important, as is being a self-motivated individual with a strong work ethic.

Experience : 10-15Years

What You’ll Bring

This role will include the following:

• Design solutions to business requirements
• Develop and support speed critical software in C++ for embedded systems, interfacing with custom hardware, including a hardware-based file system
• Develop code focussed on the NFS file sharing protocol
• Develop and enhance unit tests for NFS
• Work within an agile scrum team
• Work with support engineers to diagnose and resolve escalated customer issues
• Work with test engineers to ensure automated regression test coverage of NFS functionality
• Coach and develop less-experienced developers
  
  

Qualifications & Skills

• Degree in Computer Science (or other scientific discipline) or equivalent applicable experience
• Strong C++ skills with embedded/kernel programming
• Strong experience of programming in a multi-threaded environment
• Strong experience with the NFS protocol and its associated file systems and directory services, with knowledge of NFS 4.2/NFS over RDMA being a significant advantage
• Experience of working in the Python language
  
  

About Us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Championing diversity, equity, and inclusion

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) are integral to our culture and identity. Diverse thinking, a commitment to allyship, and a culture of empowerment help us achieve powerful results. We want you to be you, with all the ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspective that brings. We support your uniqueness and encourage people from all backgrounds to apply and realize their full potential as part of our team.

How We Look After You

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.