D. E. Shaw
Senior Virtualization and Storage Engineer (New York)
$225K–$325K
New York, NY · Senior · Full-time · Posted Oct 28, 2026
- Experience
- At least ten years of hands-on experience building and supporting compute platforms in production environments.
- Education
- A degree in computer science or another technical discipline is preferred.
About the job
Leads modernization of the firm’s virtualization platform while operating production virtualization and storage systems and improving them through design, migration, and automation.
What you'll do
- Build a new virtualization platform, run proof-of-concepts, and define migration paths from current platforms.
- Own and maintain production virtualization platforms and storage solutions, ensuring availability, performance, and resource optimization.
- Develop automation and tooling, and plan and execute virtualization and storage migrations with cross-functional teams.
What they ask for
- At least ten years of hands-on experience building and supporting compute platforms in production environments.
- Expertise with modern open-source virtualization platforms and associated technologies, with a solid grounding in KVM and Linux.
- Experience with storage systems, SAN technologies and relevant storage protocols, and at least one software-defined storage platform.
- Ability to develop automation and tooling in a language such as Python or Go.
Nice to have
- Experience with commercial platforms such as VMware and Hyper-V.
- A degree in computer science or another technical discipline.
Pay
$225,000 to $325,000 USD annual base salary
Tools
KubeVirt, Kubernetes, KVM, Linux, VMware, Hyper-V, Python, Go
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