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Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers - from banks to theme parks ­- can focus on achieving the incredible with data.\nIf you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate - and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team - and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.\nJob description\nAbout the team\nWe build the object storage that AI-era workloads need. Our products help customers in regulated industries like finance, healthcare and legal store, protect and access huge amounts of data. The Object backend team owns the core of the platform: the S3 data path, metadata and database services, replication, data protection, and the distributed services that run large clusters.\nRole overview\nWe're looking for a senior backend engineer to lead the architecture and evolution of our core storage services. You'll design and build high-throughput, fault-tolerant server-side systems that work at multi-petabyte and billion-object scale. You'll own complex subsystems from start to finish, set backend engineering standards, mentor senior engineers, and be a go-to technical expert for Product Management, QE, Support and Services.\n\nKey responsibilities\nLead the architecture, design and implementation of core backend services: the S3 request and data path, metadata management, indexing, garbage collection and background services.\nDesign distributed, highly available systems with clear consistency, durability and failure-handling guarantees.\nOwn the scalability and performance of the data and metadata layers. Profile, tune and remove bottlenecks in throughput, latency and IOPS-heavy workloads.\nDrive the evolution of database and messaging layers, such as PostgreSQL upgrades and tuning, distributed SQL (YugabyteDB), and RabbitMQ-based async processing.\nDesign and improve replication, disaster recovery and data integrity features (multi-site replication, failover/recovery, checksum verification).\nImplement S3 API features and compliance, including versioning, Object Lock/WORM, lifecycle policies and multipart upload.\nLead backend modernization work: runtime and language migrations (for example Python 3), containerization and Kubernetes-based services, and observability with Prometheus and Grafana.\nAct as the final escalation point for critical production issues. Lead root cause analysis for problems like JVM heap exhaustion, session or resource leaks, deadlocks and data availability issues, and deliver lasting fixes.\nWork with security teams to fix CVEs and harden backend services (encryption at rest and in transit, key management and rekeying, authentication and authorization).\nSet backend standards for API design, code quality, design reviews, testing and CI/CD, and mentor Senior and Specialist engineers across locations.\nRequired qualifications\nBS or MS in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or a related field.\n12+ years of backend or systems software development, with a strong record of architecting and shipping enterprise-grade distributed systems. \nExpert-level Java skills, including JVM internals, garbage collection tuning, and heap and thread dump analysis. Strong skills in Go and/or Python.\nDeep knowledge of concurrency, multithreading, networking, data structures and algorithms on Linux.\nProven experience designing distributed systems: consensus/replication, partitioning, consistency models and fault tolerance.\nStrong hands-on experience with relational databases (PostgreSQL preferred), including schema design, query optimization and upgrades.\nExperience building and scaling RESTful/HTTP services and asynchronous, message-driven architectures.\nExcellent communication skills, and experience leading technical work across globally distributed teams.\nPreferred qualifications\nDeep storage domain experience: object storage internals, the S3 API, file or block storage, SAN.\nExperience with erasure coding or RAID, data deduplication or compression, and data integrity (MD5/SHA256).\nExperience with Yuga byte DB or other distributed SQL/NoSQL databases, and RabbitMQ or Kafka.\nExperience with Docker and Kubernetes, and with moving monolithic services to cloud-native microservices.\nExperience with observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and with designing operational metrics and telemetry.\nKnowledge of security practices: encryption, KMIP key management, identity and access management, and secure SDLC.\nExperience with GitLab CI/CD and automated testing at the unit, integration and system levels.\nPatents, publications or open-source contributions in storage or distributed systems.\nWhat success looks like\nCore services meet scale, performance and reliability targets on large production clusters.\nCritical escalations and backend defect backlog go down measurably, and root cause analyses lead to fixes that stop the issue from coming back.\nModernization milestones (database, runtime, telemetry upgrades) ship on plan without hurting stability.\nYour designs become standards other teams adopt, and the engineers you mentor grow into technical leaders.\nWhy join us\nYou'll build the core of mission-critical storage trusted by many of the world's largest enterprises. You'll have real influence on architecture and product direction, in a collaborative and inclusive culture that values innovation and respect.\nAbout us\nWe’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.\nFostering innovation through diverse perspectives\nHitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.\nWe are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.\nHow we look after you\nWe help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.\nWe’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. 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