Software Engineer- Storage Panasas
Panasas, Inc., the leader in high-performance parallel storage for business-critical applications, enables customers to rapidly solve complex computing problems, speed innovation and accelerate new product introduction. Addressing the Big Data market, all Panasas storage products leverage the patented PanFS? storage operating system to deliver superior performance, data protection, scalability and manageability. The company?s global reach extends to 50 countries with a diverse line-up of fortune 500 companies in key verticals including life sciences, finance, oil and gas, government, research, manufacturing and aeronautics..
Panasas has a culture where bright, dedicated people can flourish with the opportunity to shape an industry.
To learn more, please visit us at www.panasas.com
Summary
As a member of the storage development team you will be working on the design, development and maintenance of storage drivers in the system. This will include SAS/SATA, FC and iSCSI drivers. As part of your job you will be working with the hardware team to define and spec new storage hardware such as SAS/SATA controllers, and then developing drivers for them.
Responsibilities
Design and Develop new functionality.
Develop unit and system tests and execute them prior to handing off code to the QA team
Participate in the end-to-end analysis of the system?s performance.
Participate in file system performance tuning.
Resolve bugs found by QA and in the field.
Work with Service team to make sure that new features can be easily maintained and serviced.
Participate in the training of QA and the service teams on new features that have been developed by the team.
Work on high priority/critical issues found at customer sites.
Experience/Qualifications
Minimum of 5 years industry experience developing storage-related software products is required, preferably in storage device drivers.
Extensive knowledge of C/C++, in-depth knowledge of Unix internals and excellent design and programming skills are required.
Experience in kernel level development, multi-threading / parallel programming and fault-tolerance techniques are required, preferably on FreeBSD/Linux.
Thorough knowledge of SCSI ULP is a must.
Strong problem solving skills, strong debugging ability in both live debugging and dump analysis, are required.
Understanding of SAS/SATA, FC & iSCSI protocols, as well as understanding of multi-pathing concepts are big plusses.
Knowledge of SAN & NAS storage paradigms and knowledge of Object Storage are plusses.
Must be an excellent team-player.
Requirements:
BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
| Location: |
Sunnyvale, CA
United States
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Provides next generation network attended storage solutions.
Investors: Centennial Ventures,
Focus Ventures,
Intel Capital,
Mohr Davidow Ventures,
Novak Biddle Venture Partners All Jobs: at Panasas
| Web Site: | www.panasas.com |
| Headquarters: | 6520 Kaiser Drive
Fremont, CA 94555
United States
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| Year Founded: | 2001 |
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| Industry: | Computers and Peripherals |
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| Company Profile: | Panasas ActiveStor Parallel Storage is the premier storage system for scalable Linux clusters. Panasas delivers exceptional scaling in capacity and performance while extending appliance-like ease of management to a virtually boundless storage system for High Performance Computing (HPC) organizations around the world. All Panasas storage clusters contain the object-based, PanFS parallel file system. Using Panasas storage solutions, organizations can achieve maximum application performance while reducing total cost of ownership (TCO) by driving cost and complexity out of their storage infrastructures. Panasas solutions break the storage I/O bottleneck and are deployed in a broad range of government, academic and Fortune 500 organizations. |
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