[Remote] Senior Software Engineering Manager – KV Cache Platform

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. DataDirect Networks (DDN) is a global market leader in AI and high-performance data storage innovation. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineering Manager to lead the engineering organization responsible for their KV Cache Platform, focusing on building scalable, low-latency distributed systems that support AI inference.

Responsibilities

• Lead, mentor, and grow a geographically distributed team of software engineers and technical leaders, fostering a culture of technical excellence, innovation, ownership, and collaboration
• Define and execute the technical strategy and roadmap for the KV Cache Platform, ensuring scalability, reliability, security, and operational excellence
• Drive the architecture, development, and delivery of distributed systems supporting AI inference, GPU memory optimization, distributed caching, RDMA networking, GPUDirect Storage, NVIDIA BlueField DPUs, and emerging AI infrastructure technologies
• Partner closely with Product Management, Sales, Customer Engineering, NVIDIA, and strategic technology partners to prioritize customer requirements, drive proof-of-concepts (POCs), influence product direction, and successfully deliver customer deployments
• Own day-to-day engineering execution, including feature development, release planning, bug triage, production issues, customer escalations, and cross-functional execution to ensure timely, high-quality software delivery
• Establish engineering best practices for software quality, observability, automation, performance, testing, and production readiness
• Collaborate across engineering, infrastructure, and hardware teams to deliver scalable, production-ready AI infrastructure while developing future engineering leaders and driving continuous improvement

Skills

• 15+ years of experience building distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, storage platforms, or AI infrastructure software
• 7+ years leading high-performing software engineering organizations, including geographically distributed teams
• Proven experience delivering large-scale distributed infrastructure products from architecture through production deployment
• Strong background in distributed systems, Linux, networking, performance engineering, and cloud-native architectures
• Hands-on programming experience with Go and Python; experience with C/C++ is a plus
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional initiatives and influence technical direction across multiple organizations
• Experience building AI infrastructure, LLM serving platforms, distributed caching systems, or high-performance storage solutions
• Experience with technologies such as NVIDIA Dynamo, TensorRT-LLM, Triton, RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, BlueField DPUs, Kubernetes, or related AI infrastructure
• Background in HPC, distributed storage, networking, or enterprise infrastructure software
• Experience working directly with strategic customers, technology partners, OEMs, or hyperscalers to deliver enterprise AI solutions

Company Overview

DDN is the world’s leading AI and data intelligence company, powering the world’s most demanding AI workloads by keeping GPUs fed, efficient, and productive—at massive scale—so organizations can train, checkpoint, and infer faster with less footprint and power while achieving tremendous ROI from their AI investments. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in Chatsworth, California, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is http://www.ddn.com.

Company H1B Sponsorship

DDN has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 6 in 2026, 5 in 2025, 3 in 2024, 2 in 2023, 4 in 2022, 3 in 2021. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.