Senior Engineer, Storage Services

Nscale•Seattle, WA

4h•$120,000 - $190,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Nscale is seeking a Senior Engineer, Storage Services to provide senior technical leadership across their storage services group. This role involves shaping the architecture, engineering direction, and technical quality of services spanning Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage. As a senior individual contributor, you will report to the VP Storage Engineer and work closely with the Director of Storage Services. Your responsibilities will include partnering across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure seamless integration of storage services into the Nscale platform, translating strategy into technical direction, and defining the design, build, and evolution of critical storage services. The goal is to deliver scalable, resilient, and high-performing storage capabilities that support the future of AI infrastructure at Nscale.

Requirements

Proven experience in a senior technical role within storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
Deep expertise across modern storage architectures, including Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage systems.
Strong track record of leading technical direction in complex engineering environments without formal people management authority.
Demonstrable experience designing and operating large-scale, production-grade storage or infrastructure services.
Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including performance, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
Experience working on platform-level services that support multiple products, teams, or customer use cases.
Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across architecture, operations, cost, performance, and customer requirements.
Hands-on engineering credibility with the ability to go deep into technical design, review implementation approaches, and guide teams through complex problems.
Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team or organisation.
Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and influence stakeholders across engineering and leadership teams.
Comfort operating across both strategic and detailed technical work, from long-term architecture through to practical delivery guidance.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice To Haves

Experience in AI, HPC, data-intensive, or performance-sensitive environments would be highly advantageous.

Responsibilities

Provide technical leadership across the Storage Services group for Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage services.
Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and high-performance storage solutions aligned with Nscale’s wider platform architecture.
Guide key engineering decisions, review designs, and uphold high standards of technical quality across the storage estate.
Drive architectural consistency, sound engineering practices, and strong technical governance across storage services.
Work closely with engineering leadership to translate storage strategy into clear technical plans, priorities, and implementation approaches.
Influence the roadmap by clarifying technical trade-offs, platform dependencies, and long-term architectural considerations.
Identify technical risks, scalability constraints, and operational weaknesses before they become larger issues.
Partner with engineers across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage services integrate effectively into the broader Nscale platform.
Support teams with hands-on guidance to solve complex engineering challenges.
Contribute deep technical expertise where platform-level coordination and alignment are required.
Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts, and design work for new storage capabilities, service improvements, and platform enhancements.
Support the team in improving service reliability, observability, performance, supportability, and operational maturity.
Contribute to major incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement where deep storage expertise is required.
Stay current with developments in storage technologies and distributed systems to inform decisions on tools, architectures, and service evolution.
Mentor and support engineers within the Storage Services group, helping raise technical capability across the team.
Act as a senior technical authority by reviewing implementation approaches and guiding teams through difficult technical problems.
Help set engineering standards that strengthen the quality and long-term maintainability of storage services.