As a Software Engineer for Distributed Storage, you will contribute to develop and operate the next generation of storage solutions for high-energy physics experiments. Your work will focus on optimizing exabyte-scale storage infrastructure and refining the application stack for Grid Computing and HPC workloads. You will work with a variety of technologies, including software-defined disk storage, Linux-based disk server operations, and large-scale data management for our multi-petabyte storage farms. Your role will involve designing, developing, and integrating next-generation storage services, primarily leveraging technologies developed and operated by our group in collaboration with external partners.
Responsibilities:
Participate in the core development of distributed disk storage systems.
Participate in the service operation, troubleshooting and maintenance of large-scale, geographically distributed disk storage systems.
Contribute to documentation, development, optimization and further automation of storage services.
Contribute to the evolution of architecture and design of distributed storage services.
Contribute to change management, incident response and user support.
Liaise with key stakeholders inside and outside of the IT department.
Requirements:
Master's degree or PhD or equivalent relevant experience in the field of Computer Engineering or Software Engineering or a related field.
Extensive programming experience in C/C++, Python and Shell/Bash.
Operational experience with large-scale production deployments.
Design and architecture of large-scale distributed services.
Advanced knowledge of Linux environments (system installation, tuning, monitoring and debugging).
Automation software (e.g. Puppet, Foreman) and monitoring tools (e.g. Grafana).
Physical, virtual and container-based infrastructure management.
Spoken and written English, with a commitment to learn French.
