Senior Engineer, Ceph

Index Exchange•Austin, TX

4h•Remote

About The Position

At Index Exchange, we’re reinventing how digital advertising works—at scale. As a global advertising supply-side platform, we empower the world’s leading media owners and marketers to thrive in a programmatic, privacy-first ecosystem. We’re a proud industry pioneer with over 20 years of experience accelerating the ad technology evolution. Our proprietary tech is trusted by some of the world’s largest brands and media owners and plays a crucial role in keeping the internet open, accessible, and largely free. We process more than 550 billion real-time auctions every day (in comparison, Google processes 8.5 billion searches per day) with ultra-low latency. Our platform is vertically integrated from servers to networks and runs primarily on our own metal and cloud infrastructure. This end-to-end infrastructure is designed to provide both stability and agility, enabling us to adapt quickly as the market evolves. At the core of it all is our engineering-first culture. Our engineers tackle internet-scale problems across tight-knit, global teams. From moving petabytes of data and optimizing with AI to making real-time infrastructure decisions, Indexers have the agency and influence to shape the future of advertising. We move fast, build thoughtfully, and stay grounded in our core values. About the role: We’re looking for a remote Senior Storage Engineer (Ceph) to support our storage team in the Cloud Platform division. Index’s scale spans the globe, our transactions happen 24x7 in our global data centers, and every second that passes, millions of requests are evaluated across our exchange. In order to achieve our mission, global efficiency and reliability are absolutely key, as every millisecond quite literally counts in our business.

Requirements

Experience with building, maintaining and troubleshooting open-source distributed storage solutions such as Ceph and storage orchestrators such as Rook, in a highly automated environment and at scale.
Experience with IaC and configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform.
Experience with storage level replication technologies.
Strong experience with capacity planning, disaster recovery and monitoring

Responsibilities

Design, build and operate a highly scalable, performant and resilient storage layer that operates on a planet scale
Developing and maintaining automation to handle logging, monitoring and maintenance of the storage layer
Work with different technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Aerospike, Kafka etc to enhance and optimize existing systems.
Participate in complex security system designs and mentor junior teammates
Act as a senior contributor to the team who takes ownership of large projects and components
Champions improvements to processes and procedures for the team and for the division.
Influence the team’s direction and foster accountability, trust, and focus on goals.
Live the Index values and promote those internally and externally.

Benefits

Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents
Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules
Competitive retirement matching plans
Equity packages
Generous parental leave available to birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents
Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities
Commuter benefits and discounts, where available
Employee assistance program
Mental health first aid program that provides an in-the-moment point of contact and reassurance
One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program
Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events
Multiple resources and programming to support continuous learning
A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment