Senior Storage Engineer
About The Position
You will focus on design, standards, and domain expertise Validation Design: Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers. Standardization: Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations. Security & Access: Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions. Strategic Partnerships: Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance. Leadership: Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
- A strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems:
- Familiarity with one or more storage solutions of the following vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
- File, Block, and Object storage types
- Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols.
- NVMEoverFabricStorage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
- Storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
- Encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy strategies
- Storage data-reduction, compression, and encryption
- Backup and data protection
- 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Kubernetes, including CSI and COSI drivers and CNI’s
- Deep understanding of storage performance
- Strong understanding of public cloud features (e.g., SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, identity management)
- Experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Software Defined Storage
- Have implemented either open-source or commercial monitoring solutions of storage and storage-adjacent solutions
Responsibilities
- Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
- Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
- Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions.
- Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance.
- Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.
Benefits
- We offer generous cash & equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
