Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage

What you'll do

• Define the storage engine’s multi-year technical strategy and lead its re-architecture.
• Architect storage solutions using industry-standard protocols and guide critical design decisions across storage, networking, and virtualization.
• Lead performance engineering to resolve bottlenecks across the I/O path and distributed clusters.

What they ask for

• 12+ years building and operating large-scale, complex distributed cloud computing infrastructure products.
• Strong troubleshooting and performance-tuning skills, including profiling and optimizing the full I/O path.
• Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of distributed state and data protection at petabyte scale.
• Mastery of professional software engineering practices across the full SDLC.

Nice to have

• Experience with public cloud offerings, AI/ML frameworks, or MLOps; high-throughput I/O architectures; RDMA or high-performance networking; or scalable distributed systems.
• Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

Pay

up to $245,000 - $290,000 USD base salary; bonus amount not specified

Tools

C, C++, Go, Rust, NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP

AI focus

Builds storage infrastructure for AI-scale workloads; AI/ML framework familiarity is a bonus.