Staff Frontend / Full-Stack Engineer

About the job

DDN India is seeking a highly experienced Staff Frontend / Full-Stack engineer to design and deliver intuitive, high-performance user interfaces and supporting services for enterprise-grade distributed storage platforms. This role focuses on building responsive dashboards, observability tools, and management interfaces that enable users to monitor, manage, and operate large-scale storage systems across object, file (POSIX), and multi-tenant environments. You will work closely with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams to integrate UI experiences with distributed systems handling metadata, telemetry, and control-plane operations, while ensuring scalability, performance, and usability. The ideal candidate brings strong expertise in modern frontend frameworks, full-stack development, system design, and building UI-driven experiences for complex distributed systems. Key Responsibilities • Design and develop responsive, intuitive UI dashboards for storage system management. • Build visualization components for metrics, system health, capacity, performance, and alerts. • Translate product requirements and workflows into user-friendly interfaces. • Ensure UI performance and scalability for large datasets and real-time updates. • Develop APIs and backend services that support UI functionality. • Implement data aggregation, query handling, and orchestration logic for storage systems. • Work with distributed systems handling metadata, telemetry, and control-plane interactions. • Optimize backend services for scalability, reliability, and low latency. • Integrate with distributed storage architectures (object, block, and file systems). • Support management of multi-tenant environments and large-scale clusters. • Handle streaming data, event-driven updates, and asynchronous workflows. • Work with engineering teams to expose meaningful system insights to users. Collaboration • Partner with backend, platform, and infrastructure teams. • Collaborate with product managers and UX designers. • Work closely with storage and systems engineers to understand domain requirements. Performance & Quality • Ensure high performance, scalability, and responsiveness of UI and services. • Write clean, maintainable, and testable code. • Participate in code reviews, testing, and release processes. Required Qualifications • Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field. • 10+ years of experience in full-stack or frontend/backend development. • Strong experience with modern frontend frameworks (e.g., React, Angular). • Proficiency in backend development (e.g., Node.js, Python, Go, or Java). • Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and/or GraphQL. • Familiarity with distributed systems concepts and cloud-native architectures. • Experience working with databases (SQL/NoSQL) and data modeling. • Understanding of asynchronous processing, caching, and performance optimization. Preferred Qualifications • Experience with large-scale storage systems, distributed systems, or cloud platforms. • Familiarity with Kubernetes, microservices, and containerized environments. • Experience building observability dashboards (metrics, logs, tracing). • Knowledge of authentication/authorization systems (OAuth, SSO, RBAC). • Exposure to high-performance computing (HPC) or AI infrastructure environments. • Experience working with real-time data and streaming frameworks.