Tuesday, May 20, 2014

SolidFire - Software Engineer

SolidFire is a rapidly growing enterprise-class data storage company currently in production with an all-SSD solution, specifically designed for large-scale, public and private cloud deployments. SolidFire is delivering high-availability, high-performance, fault-tolerant software that runs concurrently on up to 100 nodes. We flawlessly pool resources and can maintain data integrity even when the network, rack, node, hardware, device, file system, kernel or other software components fail. This is a great opportunity to work on a high-powered team delivering an industry-changing product within an extremely high-growth sector of the tech industry.

Responsibilities

The primary responsibility of the software development engineer is to design, develop and support features that extend Solidfire’s position in the cloud and enterprise storage ecosystem . More specific responsibilities include:
    Design and develop systems software in C++ on Linux
    Adhere to SolidFire coding practices including quality, style and documentation standards throughout the development process
    Work in a fast paced environment, operate gracefully under stress and handle multiple assignments in parallel

Requirements

Qualified candidates must have previous systems level software development experience in the enterprise storage industry or with another complex systems product. Additional requirements include:
    Multiple years developing in C++ on Linux (or expert C programmer with the ability and desire to quickly learn C++)
    Strong experience developing highly multi-threaded, systems level applications
    Excellent communication skills
    B.S., M.S., or PhD. in Computer Science or other related field or equivalent

About SolidFire

SolidFire is a cutting edge data-storage company that occupies a unique space between two of the most exciting trends in IT; cloud computing and solid-state storage. The SolidFire storage technology has its roots in some of the world's largest cloud deployments and has solved one of the most challenging problems in the cloud - how to guarantee block storage performance to thousands of customers within a shared infrastructure. If you are interested in working in a challenging environment on a technology that has the potential to change the way companies compute worldwide, then we’d love to hear from you. SolidFire is growing our world-class team and represents one of the hottest opportunities in the technology sector today. Join us in building The All-Flash Array for the Next Generation Data Center!