Kernel Hacker (C/C++/Solaris/Linux)
Tegile, a Western Digital Brand / Enterprise Flash Storage. Tegile, a Western Digital Brand is a manufacturer of flash storage arrays. Both hybrid and all-flash storage arrays use technology called IntelliFlash. Tegile is part of the WD Data Center Systems (DCS) business unit with an engineering centre in Ghent (Ghelamco). We are looking for a Kernel hacker with User Space (userland) experience who is interested in joining a fastgrowing company building next-generation storage. You will be part of a talented group of engineers in a very open and transparent environment. Our product is based on a very highly customized version of ZFS, we have solved the challenges of deduplication and made great strides in caching algorithms making them effective and our product stand out. Our appliance plugs into various storage ecosystems given the plugins we have developed We have a feature-rich solution that solves most data storage requirements
Qualifications and skills:
We understand that you may not have all the required qualities or have necessarily dealt with the challenges we have; however, we would like to hire a great engineer who likes solving problems and delivering a strong data storage solution for our customers.
Our “Ideal” candidate would be someone who has:
- Strong C programming background ( C++ a plus )
- Experience developing, modifying building Unix/Linux kernel (Solaris or illumos a big plus)
- Experience working with various Storage protocols and networking background: TCP/IP, UDP, SNMP, ISCSI, SAS, SATA, SCSI, etc.
- Experience in Shell and Perl scripting
- Passion for building scalable and high-performance Filesystem
Is a plus ...
- Programming skills in C++
- Solaris or illumos
- ZFS experience would be a major plus
- SMB (‘KMO’ / ‘MKB’) experience would be a major plus
- Experience with clustering solutions
What you will be doing
- You will contribute to the development of high-performance storage system with deduplication, compression, replication, and snapshots.
- You will assist with performance analysis and use the outcome of the same to deliver code that makes our Storage system the best
- Help design and develop tools for detection and analysis of stability issues.
- Help design and build a proactive response ecosystem for our storage appliance that will help us respond better to situations before they become a problem.
- Help with crash analysis of critical field issues and provide fixes for the same.
- Building toolkits for Customer Solutions team, tools that help during POC, deployment and ongoing health checks.
More info
- On Tegile: https://www.tegile.com/
- On Datanews: http://datanews.knack.be/ict/nieuws/western-digital-koopt-flash-storage-specialist-tegile-systems/article-normal-894017.html
What's in it for you?
- Working at Western Digital means that you will be working in a team with seasoned and passionate experts in their respective domains. As a team, we eat complex challenges for lunch, like building a high-performance Exabyte Storage System that makes datacenters worldwide ‘CloudStorage-ready’.
- We offer you a high-tech playground to explore all facets of ICT: from software analysis, design and ‘from scratch’ development to extensive quality testing and engineering of new software components. As a software engineer you will be reporting to the Chief Architect.
- You are the key of success for Western Digital. That’s why you will get a very attractive remuneration: fixed salary (75th percentile), a decent company car, a complete insurance package, meal vouchers, a GSM and an Internet subscription.
- Western Digital saves no energy and time to take you and your knowledge to the next level. We complete the package with peer-programming, on-the-job coaching and enough time for research.
- Oh by the way, our office hours are flexible. One day a week you can work from home, you have the freedom to plan your own workday, and with our gym membership you can do some workouts during lunch breaks!
