3 months ago
Remote, United StatesStaff+
Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end security architecture for distributed storage platforms, including data path, control plane, protocol, and ecosystem layers.
- Partner with engineering teams to secure high-performance data movement, storage tiers, APIs, and S3/POSIX interfaces.
- Lead threat modeling, security reviews, and Secure Software Development Lifecycle practices.
- Define IAM integrations, authentication and authorization workflows, RBAC/ABAC policies, SSO, MFA, federation, and tenant lifecycle management.
- Design encryption, key management, multi-tenant isolation, least-privilege controls, and segregation-of-duties mechanisms.
- Drive logging, auditing, observability, monitoring, anomaly detection, and data-exfiltration detection strategies.
- Provide technical leadership and mentorship across cross-functional engineering teams.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s or master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 12+ years of experience in security architecture, infrastructure security, or distributed systems.
- Experience designing security for large-scale distributed systems or storage platforms.
- Deep expertise in encryption, key management systems, cryptographic frameworks, and external KMS integration using KMIP or similar protocols.
- Strong knowledge of IAM, RBAC, ABAC, SSO, MFA, federation, LDAP, Active Directory, and OIDC.
- Experience with secure API design, TLS 1.3, mutual TLS, request signing such as SigV4, and multi-tenant isolation.
- Preferred experience with S3, POSIX/NFS, KV cache systems, memory tiering, AI/ML data infrastructure, BYOK, tenant-scoped key management, zero trust, cryptographic erasure, anomaly detection, and security analytics.
- Knowledge of SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, or FedRAMP compliance frameworks.
- Ability to collaborate with protocol, storage, platform, and other engineering teams.
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About DDN
DDN builds high-performance data storage and data management systems for AI, machine learning, and high-performance computing workloads used by enterprises, research institutions, and governments. It sells appliance hardware and software (including parallel file systems and AI data platforms) along with support and professional services. Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Chatsworth, California, the privately held company reports serving over 11,000 organizations worldwide.