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# Lead Software Engineer (Object Storage)

- **Company:** Socode Limited
- **Location:** Mundelein, IL, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $200,000
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** C (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon S3, C++ (Programming Language), Cluster Analysis, Profiling, Software Debugging, Linux, Memory Management, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Subsystems, System Programming, Concurrency, Storage Technologies, Codebase, Grpc
- **Published:** November 8, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.thejobnetwork.com/job/176b8145-7350-41c1-b063-95afefe3bee9/lead-software-engineer-object-storage

## About the Role

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 * 10+ years of software development in Go, Python, C, C++ or Rust (or equivalent systems-level expertise).
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 * Strong distributed-systems and high-performance storage-software design experience.
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 * Deep Linux: systems programming, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of complex systems.
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 * Solid grasp of concurrency, synchronisation, locking, async programming and memory management in performance-sensitive code.
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 * Experience with object storage or S3-compatible APIs, and demonstrated technical leadership of a team or significant workstream.
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 * Knowledge of erasure coding principles.
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 * Experience with storage protocols and clustering design and development.
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 * Experience with REST, gRPC or Thrift.
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 * Familiarity with OCaml (parts of the existing codebase are written in it) - welcome, not required.