Senior Software Engineer — Storage Platform 🖥️⚙️ REMOTE
About The Position
The Storage Platform team owns the foundational durable storage layer that every product is built on top of. Their job — and yours — is to make sure data doesn't get lost, performance holds at scale, and the architecture is ready for the next decade of growth. This is an open-ended, ambiguous, systems-close-to-the-metal role: you'll be investigating unclear symptoms, optimizing for specific hardware behaviors, improving throughput, and helping redesign components that general-purpose tools can no longer handle well. You'll be fully embedded with the U.S. team — not a satellite — which means deep collaboration, clear communication, and real ownership.
Requirements
- Strong software engineering fundamentals with comfort operating lower in the stack
- Experience with complex systems where performance, reliability, and cost actually matter
- A genuine ability to work through ambiguity — you can navigate limited signal and multiple possible causes without getting stuck
- Solid collaboration and communication skills in English (strong enough for deep technical conversations)
- Proficiency in Java, or meaningful experience in adjacent languages (C, C++, C#, Rust) — fundamentals matter more than the specific language
- A track record of shipping in environments where engineering decisions have real downstream consequences
Nice To Haves
- Experience working with hardware or systems tightly coupled to hardware behavior
- Exposure to Rust or interest in growing into it
- Breadth across different systems and types of projects over time
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve a storage platform operating at cloud scale — we're talking exabyte-level storage with real durability constraints
- Optimize for different hard drive and hardware characteristics, improving throughput and reducing error rates across hardware failure modes
- Troubleshoot ambiguous, symptom-driven problems where the signal is limited and the root cause isn't obvious
- Contribute to major architectural upgrades that will support the platform for the next 5–10 years — including support for emerging storage technologies
- Take ownership of parts of the stack where general-purpose components stop being the right fit
- Improve hardware utilization and efficiency as the business grows upmarket and scale increases
- Collaborate closely with a distributed team — coordinating, problem-solving, and communicating across time zones daily
Benefits
- Competitive USD compensation: $50K–$90K base (location/market-adjusted) plus ~10% bonus
- Full integration with the U.S. engineering team — real ownership, not a satellite setup
- A chance to work on infrastructure that underpins real customer data at meaningful scale
- A company with an unusually transparent engineering culture and a strong technical reputation
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
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