Vultr
Senior Manager, Cloud Storage Engineering
$160K–$180K
Remote - United States · Remote · Manager · Full-time · Posted May 19, 2026
- Experience
- 7+ years in storage engineering, including 3+ years in engineering management.
- Education
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
About the job
Leads the engineering and operations team responsible for Vultr’s global block, object, and file storage services, from architecture and delivery through reliability and optimization.
What you'll do
- Lead and grow a storage engineering and operations team across multiple regions; own technical delivery of storage products.
- Drive architecture and ensure availability, durability, and performance across the global storage fleet.
- Optimize storage for AI and HPC workloads; manage capacity, costs, vendors, and collaboration on storage offerings and SLAs.
What they ask for
- Deep expertise with Ceph and production distributed storage architectures.
- Experience building and operating multi-tenant cloud storage services at scale.
- Strong understanding of block, object, and file storage protocols and performance characteristics.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
Nice to have
- Experience with third-party enterprise storage platforms such as DDN, VAST, Weka, or NetApp.
- Knowledge of high-performance storage optimization for AI and HPC workloads.
Pay
$160,000 - $180,000 (USD; base salary)
Tools
Ceph, DDN, VAST, Weka, NetApp
AI focus
Optimize storage systems for AI training and inference pipelines and other AI and HPC workloads requiring extreme throughput and low latency.
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