Staff Software Engineer, Lustre AI/ML, Google Cloud Storage
Sunnyvale, CA, USA · Staff · Full-time · Posted Sep 30, 2026
- Experience
- 8 years programming in C++; 5 years testing and launching software products; 5 years in large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems or networks, or compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture; 3 years in software design and architecture. Preferred: 8 years with data structures and algorithms; 3 years in technical leadership; 3 years in a complex, matrixed organization.
- Education
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Develop and optimize Lustre features and performance for Google Cloud, helping customers run AI/ML workloads and coordinating improvements across GCP services.
What you'll do
- Diagnose and optimize customers’ Lustre deployments, including profiling and tuning workloads for GCP.
- Build Lustre features that integrate with GCP technologies and collaborate with partner teams to optimize the stack.
- Measure Lustre performance, investigate bottlenecks, improve performance, and manage project priorities and deliverables.
What they ask for
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience.
- 8 years of experience programming in C++.
- 5 years of experience testing and launching software products.
- 5 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure, distributed systems, or networks, or working with compute technologies, storage, or hardware architecture; and 3 years of experience with software design and architecture.
Nice to have
- Master’s degree or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, or a related technical field; 8 years of experience with data structures and algorithms.
- Technical leadership, cross-functional project experience, or experience with parallel file systems.
Pay
$207000 - $300000 (USD) (base salary)
Tools
C++, Lustre, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), GKE, GCS, Vertex AI, GCE
AI focus
Add Lustre features and optimize the GCP stack to support customers’ AI/ML workloads.
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