- Pay
- $110,000 — $140,000 USD per year
Employer job description
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Performance QE Engineer – distributed storage platform
DDN is hiring a Performance Automation Engineer to help build and extend our automated benchmarking infrastructure for the RED (Infinia) storage platform — covering S3, Block/CSI, and POSIX/HPC I/O paths, from test orchestration through results collection and dashboards.
The role requires knowledge & experience in
storage performance testing, automation
, and system
‑ level benchmarking
, along with strong
Python and Ansible skills to build scalable, repeatable test frameworks.
What You’ll Do
- Work upon performance testing for a large‑scale distributed storage platform supporting
- S3 object storage, POSIX file systems, and block
- ‑ level protocols.
- Write and maintain
- Ansible playbooks
- /roles for cluster setup, health checks, and install/configuration
- Contribute to Celery-based task orchestration for running I/O workloads in parallel
- Execute and troubleshoot storage benchmarks: FIO, IOR, mdtest, IO500, WARP
- Write
- Python scripts for parsing results, generating manifests, and normalizing metrics
- Help maintain the PostgreSQL results schema and
- Grafana dashboards
- Assist with test reporting integration
- Debug test failures and flaky pipeline run across protocols
- Contribute new benchmark profiles (YAML workload definitions) under review
- Work closely with developers to validate fixes and feature performance impact.
What You Bring
- Python (2+ yrs): comfortable with scripting, basic async/task-queue concepts (Celery a plus)
- Working knowledge of Ansible
- (writing/modifying playbooks and roles)
- Basic SQL skills (
- PostgreSQL
- )
- Linux fundamentals
- — filesystems, networking, processes
- Exposure to CI/CD tools (GitHub Actions or similar)
- Understanding of storage concepts
- (block/file/object) — willingness to learn benchmarking tools (FIO, IOR, mdtest)
- Nice to Have
- Prior exposure to Redis/RabbitMQ or any message queue
- Grafana or other dashboarding tool experience
- Node.js basics
- Internship/project experience with performance testing or storage systems
- Familiarity with monitoring and metrics tools
- (Prometheus, Grafana).
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