Qumulo
Senior Member of Technical Staff
$200K–$300K
Seattle (hybrid) · Hybrid · Staff · Full-time · Posted Oct 1, 2026
- Experience
- 6+ years building systems software.
- Visa sponsorship
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. Unable to provide visa sponsorship or transfer.
About the job
Designs and builds Qumulo’s distributed storage system, spanning its file system, underlying block layer, and related services.
What you'll do
- Design and build file-system and block-layer components in C and Rust.
- Take designs from initial concept through implementation and release; debug across protocols, file systems, caches, networks, and object stores.
- Use AI coding agents while retaining engineering judgment, and investigate correctness issues and root causes.
What they ask for
- 6+ years building systems software, including work on a file system, kernel, database engine, compiler, driver, or distributed data path.
- Writes C, C++, or Rust by choice.
- Experience working inside a distributed system, including concurrency, consistency, failure, and recovery.
- Uses AI coding tools every day and can describe complex work enabled by them, including where the tools break down.
Nice to have
- Experience with distributed file systems, NFS, SMB, or S3, or platforms such as NetApp, PowerScale, Isilon, VAST, WEKA, Ceph, or Lustre.
- Experience with indexing, query, or search internals; a public open-source contribution, write-up, or project.
Pay
USD $200,000 - $300,000 (base salary)
Tools
C, Rust, C++, NFS, SMB, S3
AI focus
Uses AI coding agents daily to delegate execution while retaining design judgment; the role involves building complex systems with coding agents and understanding their limitations.
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