Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Crusoe • San Francisco, CA

176d • $166,000 - $201,000

About The Position

As a Senior Software Engineer on our storage team, you'll be joining our core engineering team to design, build, and optimize our next-generation cloud storage products. We're looking for a hands-on engineer with deep expertise in building storage systems. You will be responsible for building highly performant, reliable, and scalable distributed storage systems that are critical to our infrastructure and our customers' AI/HPC workloads.

Requirements

• Hands-on proficiency in modern software development best practices, and practical experience in languages like Go, Java, C/C++, or Rust
• Extensive experience developing multi-tenant, cloud scale distributed storage infrastructure software and systems
• Experience contributing to at least one or more of the following storage products: File (e.g., NFS, SMB, Lustre), Object, or Block Storage (e.g., NVMe, iSCSI)
• A strong background in high performance filesystem based products, VFS and linux filesystems (e.g., ext4, XFS, ZFS)
• Proficiency working with Linux and its storage subsystems.
• Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), log analysis, distributed tracing and debugging

Nice To Haves

• Experience with AI/HPC storage solutions, such as Parallel Filesystems or petabyte+ scale Object Storage.
• Familiarity with networking technologies like RDMA and Infiniband.
• Familiarity with modern storage technologies (e.g GPU Direct Storage, F2FS, SPDK etc)
• Prior experience with Nvidia SuperNIC DPUs for storage optimization
• Prior experience in Storage Virtualization & Orchestration, volume placement strategies and distributed metadata management
• Research publications or open-source contributions to storage-related projects.

Responsibilities

• Building Our Multi-Petabyte Cloud Storage Platform
• Building core components of our foundational storage products, purpose built for high performance AI and ML workloads
• Contributing to distributed file, block and object storage products, with a focus on filesystem based solutions
• Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and resilient storage architectures that are highly extensible
• Proposing and prototyping novel strategies to scale performance and system throughput for our most demanding customer workloads
• Building observability, metrics and tooling for our services and fleet
• Troubleshooting and resolving unique and complex distributed systems problems only seen at the scale we operate at
• Provide ongoing support for production systems, and customer workloads including troubleshooting, performance tuning, and incident response
• Foster strong collaboration with other engineering teams (e.g., Software Infrastructure, Product) and cross-functional departments
• Single threaded ownership and representation of the storage team in business critical initiatives across the company

Benefits

• Industry competitive pay
• Restricted Stock Units in a fast-growing, well-funded technology company
• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
• Employer contributions to HSA accounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Teladoc
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Subscription to the Calm app
• MetLife Legal
• Company paid commuter benefit; $200 per month

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior