Staff Replication Development Engineer at DDN

Department: Department

Setup: Hybrid
Location: North Carolina
Level: staff+
Posted: Jul 31, 2026

Description

DDN is hiring a Staff Replication Development Engineer to lead the design and development of the replication engine for the Infinia AI Data Platform. The role focuses on building enterprise-grade asynchronous replication, high-performance data synchronization, secure TLS-based transfer, data integrity, failover workflows, REST APIs, metadata tracking, observability, and scalable, fault-tolerant systems. The engineer will also provide technical leadership, architectural guidance, and mentorship to the engineering team.

Required Skills

Distributed systems
C++/Go/Java/Rust
Concurrency
TLS 1.3
REST APIs
Checkpointing
Data integrity
Observability

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 8+ years of experience in distributed systems, storage systems, or backend software engineering
Experience designing and building data replication systems, data pipelines, or distributed data services
Experience implementing data integrity mechanisms, including checksums, validation, and consistency checks
Experience designing and building REST APIs and service-based architectures
Familiarity with checkpointing, failure recovery, and retry mechanisms in distributed systems
Preferred Qualifications: Experience with asynchronous replication, disaster recovery, or backup systems
Familiarity with object storage or large-scale data storage systems
Knowledge of delta encoding, change data capture, or incremental data synchronization techniques
Experience building high-throughput, low-latency data movement systems
Exposure to security practices including mutual TLS, encryption, and authentication
Experience working on enterprise-scale data platforms or storage products
Familiarity with performance optimization and large-scale system tuning