System Engineer, Israel or remote

Job Description

Xinnor is an Israeli-based software development company that specializes in creating innovative data storage solutions. Our main product xiRAID is a patented software RAID technology that delivers exceptional performance.

xiRAID works with all storage devices and excels when deployed alongside NVMe® or NVMe-oF™ devices. It is the only solution on the market to drive up to 95% of raw device performance in a computationally heavy RAID6/RAID N+M configurations with a low load on the host CPU and memory footprint.

Basing on our xiRAID technology we do with our partners:

• Software design in cooperation with HW and SW vendors (Western Digital, Intel, Kioxia, Samsung just to mention a few) and their specialized research labs.
• Software defined storage for high performance computing clusters for scientific and industrial applications.
• Solutions for different industries: Media&Entertainment, Telecom, Finance, Automotive.

We are all about performance and looking for software engineers who want to be a part of the young and very ambitious team blended with our more than 10 years research experience and existing product selling worldwide.

Responsibilities

• Research and measure storage performance for High Performance Computing (HPC) workloads.
• Maximize performance at the integration layer with parallel or distributed file systems.
• Document and update best practices, procedures, and policies for HPC and SDS clusters. Knowledge sharing with other engineers.
• Provide timely and professional support to HPC cluster admins and customers.
• Work with other HPC engineers to design and implement scalable and efficient solutions for big data applications.
• Present results to the customers or at public events and conferences.
• Participate in pre-sales.

The following skills will help you be successful on the job:

• In-depth knowledge and hands-on experience with the hardware architecture of modern drive subsystems and servers.
• Understanding and ability to identify components responsible for application performance degradation, bottle-neck localisation to the specific component (kernel/application lines of code, hardware component), finding root causes of computational failures.
• Experience in using of tracing and profiling tools (Dtrace, SystemTap, perf, strace, eBPF).
• Deep knowledge in Linux system administration, knowledge of any modern scripting language: e.g. Python or advanced knowledge of BASH.
• Deep knowledge in one or more parallel or distributed filesystems such as Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, etc.
• Understanding of methodologies and principles of load testing, automated testing.

We Offer You:

• Challengeable tasks: you will feel yourself as an inventor solving tasks not solved before.
• Everything about performance: CPUs and DPUs, drives, buses, communication protocols.
• Work together with the best industry talents with ability to learn.
• Fast growing company & International environment.
• Flat organization with possibility to make an impact.