Director, Storage Engineering

Why should you choose us?

Rakuten Symphony is reimagining telecom, changing supply chain norms and disrupting outmoded thinking that threatens the industry’s pursuit of rapid innovation and growth. Based on proven modern infrastructure practices, its open interface platforms make it possible to launch and operate advanced mobile services in a fraction of the time and cost of conventional approaches, with no compromise to network quality or security. Rakuten Symphony has operations in Japan, the United States, Singapore, India, South Korea, Europe, and the Middle East Africa region. For more information, visit:

Building on the technology Rakuten used to launch Japan’s newest mobile network, we are taking our mobile offering global. To support our ambitions to provide an innovative cloud-native telco platform for our customers, Rakuten Symphony is looking to recruit and develop top talent from around the globe. We are looking for individuals to join our team across all functional areas of our business – from sales to engineering, support functions to product development.

Let’s build the future of mobile telecommunications together!

About Rakuten Group, Inc. (TSE: 4755) is a global leader in internet services that empower individuals, communities, businesses and society. Founded in Tokyo in 1997 as an online marketplace, Rakuten has expanded to offer services in e-commerce, fintech, digital content and communications to approximately 1.9 billion members around the world. The Rakuten Group has over 30,000 employees, and operations in 30 countries and regions. For more information visit

Work Location : Pune or Bengaluru.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain high-performance, scalable storage systems.
• Code in a variety of languages, primarily C/C++.
• Be able to execute project in entirety from feature specification, design, implementation and validation with minimal supervision.
• Be able to create documentation such as design documents, feature specification and bug updates.
• Being able to create a work plan with verifiable milestones and time estimates and deliver project within estimates.
• Constructively collaborate with the team during design/code reviews.
• Interfacing with QA to come up with effective feature test plans.
• Being able to benchmark performance and identify and troubleshoot bottlenecks

Requirements

• 15+ years of system software development experience.
• Strong C/C++ programming skills
• Python, Shell scripting, Linux experience
• 10+ years experience developing Enterprise quality FileSystem/Storage software
• Ability to program both in kernel and userspace
• Good understanding of multithreading and race conditions in concurrent systems.
• Good understanding of on-disk and in-memory data structures and algorithms with emphasis on performance
• Ability to work successfully as part of a team
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Engineering or equivalent work experience

Desired

• Experience in design and development of hyperconverged/distributed storage systems
• Experience in debugging and fixing data corruption issues
• Experience implementing erasure coding for data protection

RAKUTEN SHUGI PRINCIPLES:

Our worldwide practices describe specific behaviours that make Rakuten unique and united across the world. We expect Rakuten employees to model these 5 Shugi Principles of Success.

• Always improve, always advance. Only be satisfied with complete success - Kaizen.
• Be passionately professional. Take an uncompromising approach to your work and be determined to be the best.
• Hypothesize - Practice - Validate - Shikumika. Use the Rakuten Cycle to success in unknown territory.
• Maximize Customer Satisfaction. The greatest satisfaction for workers in a service industry is to see their customers smile.
• Speed!! Speed!! Speed!! Always be conscious of time. Take charge, set clear goals, and engage your team.