Job Description

This is an incredible opportunity to be part of a company that has been at the forefront of AI and high-performance data storage innovation for over two decades. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader renowned for powering many of the world's most demanding AI data centers, in industries ranging from life sciences and healthcare to financial services, autonomous cars, Government, academia, research and manufacturing.

"DDN's A3I solutions are transforming the landscape of AI infrastructure." – IDC

“The real differentiator is DDN. I never hesitate to recommend DDN. DDN is the de facto name for AI Storage in high performance environments” - Marc Hamilton, VP, Solutions Architecture & Engineering | NVIDIA

DDN is the global leader in AI and multi-cloud data management at scale. Our cutting-edge data intelligence platform is designed to accelerate AI workloads, enabling organizations to extract maximum value from their data. With a proven track record of performance, reliability, and scalability, DDN empowers businesses to tackle the most challenging AI and data-intensive workloads with confidence.

Our success is driven by our unwavering commitment to innovation, customer-centricity, and a team of passionate professionals who bring their expertise and dedication to every project. This is a chance to make a significant impact at a company that is shaping the future of AI and data management.

Our commitment to innovation, customer success, and market leadership makes this an exciting and rewarding role for a driven professional looking to make a lasting impact in the world of AI and data storage.

DDN India is seeking a highly experienced Staff Frontend / Full-Stack engineer to design and deliver intuitive, high-performance user interfaces and supporting services for enterprise-grade distributed storage platforms. This role focuses on building responsive dashboards, observability tools, and management interfaces that enable users to monitor, manage, and operate large-scale storage systems across object, file (POSIX), and multi-tenant environments. You will work closely with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams to integrate UI experiences with distributed systems handling metadata, telemetry, and control-plane operations, while ensuring scalability, performance, and usability. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in modern frontend frameworks, full-stack development, system design, and building UI-driven experiences for complex distributed systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design and develop responsive, intuitive UI dashboards for storage system management.
• Build visualization components for metrics, system health, capacity, performance, and alerts.
• Translate product requirements and workflows into user-friendly interfaces.
• Ensure UI performance and scalability for large datasets and real-time updates.
• Develop APIs and backend services that support UI functionality.
• Implement data aggregation, query handling, and orchestration logic for storage systems.
• Work with distributed systems handling metadata, telemetry, and control-plane interactions.
• Optimize backend services for scalability, reliability, and low latency.
• Integrate with distributed storage architectures (object, block, and file systems).
• Support management of multi-tenant environments and large-scale clusters.
• Handle streaming data, event-driven updates, and asynchronous workflows.
• Work with engineering teams to expose meaningful system insights to users.

Collaboration

• Partner with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams.
• Collaborate with product managers and UX designers.
• Work closely with storage and systems engineers to understand domain requirements.

Performance & Quality

• Ensure high performance, scalability, and responsiveness of UI and services.
• Write clean, maintainable, and testable code.
• Participate in code reviews, testing, and release processes.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in full-stack or frontend/backend development.
• Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular).
• Proficiency in backend development (e.g., Node.js, Python, Go, or Java).
• Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL.
• Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and cloud-native architectures.
• Experience working with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Understanding of asynchronous processing, caching, and performance optimization.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with large-scale storage systems, distributed systems, or cloud platforms.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes, microservices, and containerized environments.
• Experience building observability dashboards (metrics, logs, tracing).
• Knowledge of authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, SSO, RBAC).
• Exposure to high-performance computing (HPC) or AI infrastructure environments.
• Experience working with real-time data and streaming frameworks.

What You’ll Work On

• Designing and delivering UI dashboards for managing distributed storage systems
• Building observability and monitoring interfaces for metrics, logs, and system health
• Developing full-stack services that power real-time system insights and control workflows
• Enabling scalable interaction with multi-tenant, high-performance storage environments
• Integrating UI experiences with backend metadata, telemetry, and control-plane systems
• Improving performance, usability, and responsiveness of complex enterprise platforms
• Collaborating across teams to translate distributed system complexity into intuitive user experiences

DDN

DataDirect Networks (DDN) is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender, sex stereotyping, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected Veteran Status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.