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# Lead Software Engineer (Object Storage)

- **Company:** Socode Limited
- **Location:** Boston, MA, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Clean Code Principles, C (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon S3, Automation of Tests, C++ (Programming Language), Profiling, Computer Programming, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Software Debugging, Linux, Memory Management, Python (Programming Language), Software Engineering, Subsystems, System Programming, Build Management, Storage Technologies, Grpc
- **Published:** November 9, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.juju.com/job/28_25303_c486c2c754902522142ff02341513778

## About the Role

* 10+ years of software development in Go, Python, C, C++ or Rust (or equivalent systems-level expertise).
 * Strong distributed-systems and high-performance storage-software design experience.
 * Deep Linux: systems programming, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of complex systems.
 * Solid grasp of concurrency, synchronisation, locking, async programming and memory management in performance-sensitive code.
 * Experience with object storage or S3-compatible APIs, and demonstrated technical leadership of a team or significant workstream.

Nice to have

 * Experience with the Linux I/O subsystem and networking.
 * Knowledge of erasure coding principles.
 * Experience with storage protocols and clustering design and development.
 * Experience with REST, gRPC or Thrift.
 * Familiarity with OCaml (parts of the existing codebase are written in it) - welcome, not required.

## Description

* Act as technical lead for a new object storage team while remaining substantially hands-on.
 * Drive technical direction and key architectural decisions across the data path, durability, S3 and data movement.
 * Design and build critical components, lead design and code reviews, and ensure solid automated testing and CI coverage.
 * Own complex durability and data-placement work - including erasure coding - ensuring correctness under node loss, disk faults, partial writes and network partitions.
 * Mentor engineers, grow technical ownership across the team, and partner with the manager on scope, sequencing and risk.