IBM

NFS Developer

Posted On

Oct. 29, 2024

Location

Bangalore, Karnataka

Experience Level

Professional

Job Type

Permanent

Apply By

Jan. 3, 2025

Job Description

Introduction
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Your Role and Responsibilities
Roles and Responsibilities of a Senior Software Engineer in IBM's Ceph Engineering Organization:

Collaborate with the worldwide Samba and Ceph Engineering Team:
Work closely with the global team to develop and enhance of Samba’s SMB file server integration with CephFS, the file system component of the Ceph software-defined distributed storage system.

Design and implement new capabilities and features:
Contribute to the development of Samba and CephFS by designing and implementing new functionalities that enable innovative use cases.

Improve scalability, performance, and efficiency:
Identify areas for improvement in terms of scalability, performance, and efficiency of Samba’s CephFS integration. Propose and implement optimizations to enhance the overall system performance.

Participate in the open-source communities:
Engage in the vibrant and active open-source communities surrounding Samba and Ceph. Contribute to the community by collaborating with developers, providing support and delivering enterprise-quality software.

Work with a wide-ranging software suite:
Familiarize yourself with the different components of Samba and CephFS, including Linux kernel and userspace client APIs, Samba’s SMB3 fileserver, the clustering components like Ceph’s metadata server and Samba’s cluster manager (“CTDB”), the messaging layer for storing data with Ceph's native object store (""RADOS""), the ceph manager component that deploys and manages the SMB file server.

Utilize modern open-source tools:
Communicate and collaborate effectively with the team using modern open-source tools such as Git (GitLab and GitHub) for version control and community-developed testing and validation tools.

Remote teamwork and communication:
As a remote team member you ensure effective communication with the worldwide team. Participate in meetings, discussions and collaborative decision-making to maintain a cohesive and efficient development process.

Stay updated with industry trends and best practices:
Keep up-to-date with the latest trends and advancements in distributed storage systems, file systems, SMB file servers and related technologies. Apply industry best practices in software engineering to improve the quality and reliability of Samba and CephFS.

Mentorship and knowledge sharing:
Share your expertise and experience with team members, providing guidance and mentoring to less experienced developers. Foster a culture of learning and continuous improvement within the team.

Documentation and reporting:
Create and maintain technical documentation, including design specifications, architectural diagrams and user guides. Prepare regular progress reports and updates for stakeholders.

Primary responsibilities:
Improve the integration of Samba into CephFS, contribute to test automation within Samba related community testing frameworks as well as Ceph’s Python-language testing infrastructure (“teuthology”).
Support the Samba/Ceph community through engagement on mailing lists, chat and other public discussions.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

Minimum 5 to 10 years of experience working with C and C++ codebases, or other systems languages and demonstrated ability
Good debugging skills both live system and offline core files
Able to troubleshoot issues in production and assist Customer facing team for root cause analysis
Excellent English written and verbal communication skills, for our worldwide team
Basic knowledge of Python, to use and enhance testing
Working experience with Open sources
Experience in git and gitlab/github
Demonstrated ability to understand large codebases and develop significant new features and architectural changes

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

Experience with SMB file servers and clients
Experience with data storage and/or file systems
Experience building distributed systems
Experience working on distributed teams is a plus
Past contribution to open source projects is favorable.

About Business Unit

IBM Systems helps IT leaders think differently about their infrastructure. IBM servers and storage are no longer inanimate - they can understand, reason, and learn so our clients can innovate while avoiding IT issues. Our systems power the world’s most important industries and our clients are the architects of the future. Join us to help build our leading-edge technology portfolio designed for cognitive business and optimized for cloud computing.

Your Life @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

About IBM

IBM's greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 50 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

Location Statement

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Being You @ IBM

IBM is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, caste, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, veteran status, or other characteristics. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

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