Software Development Engineer

Function

Engineering

Our Company

We’re Hitachi Vantara, the data foundation trusted by the world’s innovators. Our resilient, high-performance data infrastructure means that customers – from banks to theme parks ­– can focus on achieving the incredible with data.

If you’ve seen the Las Vegas Sphere, you’ve seen just one example of how we empower businesses to automate, optimize, innovate – and wow their customers. Right now, we’re laying the foundation for our next wave of growth. We’re looking for people who love being part of a diverse, global team – and who get excited about making a real-world impact with data.

Job description

The Team

VSP One Object and Hitachi Content Platform are Hitachi Vantara's software-defined enterprise object storage platforms. It's built to scale for cloud-native and AI workloads. The engineering scrum teams build and maintain the full

The role

We're looking for a motivated Software Development Engineer to design, build and maintain core parts of VSP One Object and Hitachi Content Platform. You'll work with architects, product owners, QA, DevOps and Support to deliver storage features that are reliable, fast and scalable.

What you"ll bring

• Design, develop, test and maintain features and services across the Object portfolio, including S3-compatible APIs, distributed metadata, deployment tooling and platform subsystems.
• Write clean, modular, maintainable code with thorough unit and integration tests, and take part in code reviews.
• Find and fix complex defects, performance bottlenecks and reliability problems in distributed storage components.
• Help with customer escalations and sustaining work: root-cause analysis, fixes and verification.
• Follow and promote engineering best practices for CI/CD, security, CVE remediation and observability (telemetry, metrics, dashboards).
• Help build and improve automated test frameworks, including functional, performance and scale testing.
• Work in an Agile/Scrum team to deliver high-quality releases on schedule.
• Write clear technical documentation, such as design notes, runbooks and RCAs.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• About 2–5 years of professional software development, ideally on enterprise software, distributed systems or storage.
• Strong programming skills in at least one of Java, Go, Python or C/C++.
• Good working knowledge of Linux/Unix and scripting (Bash, Python).
• Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes (RKE2 is a plus) and with microservice architectures.
• Understanding of REST APIs, distributed systems concepts and cloud storage protocols, especially the AWS S3 API.
• Exposure to relational or distributed databases such as PostgreSQL or YugabyteDB.
• Experience with Git and CI/CD tools such as GitLab CI, Jenkins or GitHub Actions.
• Strong problem-solving and communication skills, and comfort working in a collaborative, fast-paced team.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with enterprise storage (object, block or file), for example HCP, S3 object stores or Ceph/MinIO-style systems.
• Familiarity with S3 features such as Object Lock, versioning, replication and data integrity.
• Exposure to observability tools such as Prometheus and Grafana, and to messaging systems such as RabbitMQ.
• Knowledge of identity and access management, such as Keycloak or OAuth2/OIDC.
• Experience with performance benchmarking tools (for example WARP), containerized test harnesses or release engineering.
• Awareness of storage security: encryption, key management and vulnerability remediation.

What success looks like in the first year

• Independently delivers medium-complexity features and fixes from design through release.
• Becomes the go-to contributor for at least one Object component, such as SDT, Transition Tool or the S3 layer.
• Adds measurable improvements to test coverage, automation or observability.
• Takes part in customer escalations as a reliable technical contributor.

Why join us

• Work on enterprise storage at large scale that customers worldwide depend on.
• Learn from experienced storage architects and engineers.
• Grow your career within the Hitachi Vantara engineering organization.

About us

We’re a global team of innovators. Together, we harness engineering excellence and passion for insight to co-create meaningful solutions to complex challenges. We turn organizations into data-driven leaders that can a make positive impact on their industries and society. If you believe that innovation can inspire the future, this is the place to fulfil your purpose and achieve your potential.

Fostering innovation through diverse perspectives

Hitachi is a global company operating across a wide range of industries and regions. One of the things that sets Hitachi apart is the diversity of our business and people, which drives our innovation and growth.

We are committed to building an inclusive culture based on mutual respect and merit-based systems. We believe that when people feel valued, heard, and safe to express themselves, they do their best work.

How we look after you

We help take care of your today and tomorrow with industry-leading benefits, support, and services that look after your holistic health and wellbeing. We’re also champions of life balance and offer flexible arrangements that work for you (role and location dependent). We’re always looking for new ways of working that bring out our best, which leads to unexpected ideas. So here, you’ll experience a sense of belonging, and discover autonomy, freedom, and ownership as you work alongside talented people you enjoy sharing knowledge with.

We’re proud to say we’re an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran, age, disability status or any other protected characteristic. Should you need reasonable accommodations during the recruitment process, please let us know so that we can do our best to set you up for success.