Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Ceph Storage
About The Position
Join GoDaddy's Global Storage Engineering team, which operates one of the largest Ceph environments globally. This team delivers object, block, and file storage platforms powering GoDaddy's infrastructure, internal services, OpenStack, and AI/HPC workloads. This is a remote position where you will be a principal technical leader for GoDaddy's Ceph platform. You will design the next generation of storage clusters, lead major platform upgrades, drive capacity and hardware strategy, and establish standards for platform scaling. This role is for a seasoned storage engineer who wants to influence the future of a globally distributed storage platform serving millions of customers.
Requirements
- 7+ years designing, operating, and scaling distributed storage platforms, including deep hands-on ownership of production Ceph environments.
- Expert-level Ceph knowledge including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD architecture, MON/MGR/MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding.
- Proven experience designing storage architectures and performing capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale.
- Experience leading major storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs from planning through production execution.
- Strong automation and software engineering skills using Python and/or Go, combined with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration frameworks such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible.
Nice To Haves
- Deep expertise with advanced Ceph technologies including RGW Multisite, RBD Mirroring, CephFS at scale, BlueStore tuning, and erasure-coding optimization.
- OpenStack storage architecture experience including Cinder, Swift, Manila, Nova, and Neutron integrations with Ceph.
- Kubernetes storage expertise involving CSI drivers, stateful workloads, StorageClasses, and Rook-based Ceph deployments.
- Experience evaluating and integrating large-scale storage technologies such as NetApp, Isilon, Pure, VAST, Weka, DDN, and AI/HPC storage platforms.
- Contributions to the Ceph community through upstream development, code reviews, bug fixes, architecture discussions, or open-source storage initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Design and architect large-scale production Ceph clusters, including CRUSH topology, failure-domain modeling, replication and erasure-coding strategies, storage hardware selection, and data placement architecture.
- Lead fleet-wide capacity planning, performance modeling, and hardware qualification across 80+ production clusters comprising 20,000+ OSDs and 300 PB of raw storage.
- Own major platform upgrades and migration initiatives, including Ceph releases, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale storage modernization efforts.
- Drive resolution of the most complex cross-functional production incidents spanning storage, networking, virtualization, and compute systems.
- Establish automation, operational standards, and reliability practices that improve platform scalability, reduce toil, and increase engineering efficiency across the storage organization.
Benefits
- competitive pay
- generous time off
- parental and wellness leave
- healthcare
- retirement savings program
- medical, dental, and vision insurance
- 401(k)-retirement plan
- paid sick time
- paid flexible time off
- paid parental leave
- life insurance
- short- and long-term disability
- AD&D insurance
- mental health or EAP programs
- remote or hybrid work options
- paid holidays
- paid Wellness days
- tuition assistance
- adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits
- dependent daycare and backup care benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan
- financial education and advice
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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