Software Development Engineer

Job description:

The Team:

VSP One Object and Hitachi Content Platform are Hitachi Vantara's software-defined enterprise object storage platforms. It's built to scale for cloud-native and AI workloads. The engineering scrum teams build and maintain the full.

The role:

We're looking for a motivated Software Development Engineer to design, build and maintain core parts of VSP One Object and Hitachi Content Platform. You'll work with architects, product owners, QA, DevOps and Support to deliver storage features that are reliable, fast and scalable.

What you'll bring:

• Design, develop, test and maintain features and services across the Object portfolio, including S3-compatible APIs, distributed metadata, deployment tooling and platform subsystems.
• Write clean, modular, maintainable code with thorough unit and integration tests, and take part in code reviews.
• Find and fix complex defects, performance bottlenecks and reliability problems in distributed storage components.
• Help with customer escalations and sustaining work: root-cause analysis, fixes and verification.
• Follow and promote engineering best practices for CI/CD, security, CVE remediation and observability (telemetry, metrics, dashboards).
• Help build and improve automated test frameworks, including functional, performance and scale testing.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum team to deliver high-quality releases on schedule.
• Write clear technical documentation, such as design notes, runbooks and RCAs.

Required qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• About 2-5 years of professional software development, ideally on enterprise software, distributed systems or storage.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of Java, Go, Python or C/C++.
• Good working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (RKE2 is a plus) and with microservice architectures.
• Understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems concepts and cloud storage protocols, especially the AWS S3 API.
• Exposure to relational or distributed databases such as PostgreSQL or YugabyteDB.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, and comfort working in a collaborative, fast-paced team.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience with enterprise storage (object, block or file), for example HCP, S3 object stores or Ceph/MinIO-style systems.
• Familiarity with S3 features such as Object Lock, versioning, replication and data integrity.
• Exposure to observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and to messaging systems such as RabbitMQ.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, such as Keycloak or OAuth2/OIDC.
• Experience with performance benchmarking tools (for example WARP), containerized test harnesses or release engineering.
• Awareness of storage security: encryption, key management and vulnerability remediation.

What success looks like in the first year:

• Independently delivers medium-complexity features and fixes from design through release.
• Becomes the go-to contributor for at least one Object component, such as SDT, Transition Tool or the S3 layer.
• Adds measurable improvements to test coverage, automation or observability.
• Takes part in customer escalations as a reliable technical contributor.