Senior Software Engineer Job Posting



Job Title: Senior Software Engineer
Job ID: SSEFI/TLS
Company: Pillar Data Systems
Position Type: Permanent
Pay Rate: Up to 140k
Skills: Storage, Device Driver, NAS, SAN, Solaris DTRACE, Infiniband, C/C++, programming
Date Posted: Oct-22-09

Job Description: Sr. Software Engineer
Location: San Jose CA
Telecommute: No
Travel: 10%
Date: 10/22/2009

We are an emerging force in the Data Storage Industry. Backed financially by one of the most successful tech CEO's in Silicon Valley -- We are Pillar Data Systems.

Our San Jose California engineering team is EXPANDING -- we are searching for top notch - experienced storage professionals to help us deliver the next generation of features to the AXIOM platform.

This position REQUIRES at least 10 years of experience in developing device drivers for the data path of networked storage products (NAS and SAN)

Educational Requirements:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent. - Required
Masters Degree in Engineering -- Preferred.

Required Interpersonal Skills:
• Top notch communication skills both spoken and written.
• A passion for doing things right the first time with extreme attention to detail.
• Ability to multitask between various projects.
• Ability to handle changing priorities based on business need.
• Driven personality that finds a problem, takes ownership and drives it to resolution.
• Team player -- Ability to work cross functionally with other teams (Test engineering etc)

Required Technical Skills:
• Device driver design and development experience in a data storage product (datapath)
• Device driver experience in Solaris / Open Solaris operating system
• Experience debugging with Solaris DTRACE
• Expert level programming experience in C and C++ on an Intel / AMD x86 platform.
• History of writing clean maintainable code that passes architectural scrutiny.
• 5 years experience in developing multi-threaded POSIX multi-processor solutions.
• Working knowledge of Infiniband
• Working knowledge of the operation / configuration of a Storage Area Network (SAN)
• Working knowledge of the operation / configuration of Network Attached Storage (NAS)
• Experience with Perforce, CVS, Rational Rose or other source code control systems.

Other Skills:
• Ability to work rotating shifts of sustaining engineering (Customer Triage)
• Possible domestic or international travel to assist in a critical customer issue.
• Ability to work occasional nights and weekends to assist customer support.

Location: US-CA-San Jose
Telecommute: No (Onsite Position)
Contact Name: Tamara Swearingen
Contact Phone:
Contact Email: tswearingen@pillardata.com
URL: http://www.pillardata.com
Contact Comments:

We are only looking to talk to local San Francisco Bay area candidates at this time as we are not able to relocate anyone.
Send your resume to tswearingen@pillardata.com along with a cover letter stating where your skill sets match to what we are looking for in filling this job.




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