Senior Storage Engineer
About The Position
Lambda is hiring a Senior Storage Engineer for its Infrastructure Engineering team, which integrates storage, networking, and compute hardware to build high-performance clusters for distributed AI workloads. The role focuses on storage design, standards, and domain expertise supporting customer training and inference datasets at scale. The engineer will develop performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers, establish operational procedures and monitoring frameworks, and own access control for storage solutions. The role also includes leading technical communications with vendors, serving as a subject matter expert for customer success and complex account support, and mentoring junior engineers in storage sub-domains. The position requires working from Lambda’s San Francisco, San Jose, or Bellevue office four days per week. Tuesday is currently the designated work-from-home day.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale, multi-petabyte storage production environments.
- Familiarity with one or more storage vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, or HPE.
- Knowledge of file, block, and object storage.
- Knowledge of storage network access protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols.
- Knowledge of NVMe over Fabric storage transport protocols, such as NVMe/TCP, NVMe/IB, or NVMe/RoCE.
- Knowledge of storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, and parallel file systems.
- Knowledge of encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy strategies.
- Knowledge of storage data reduction and compression.
- Knowledge of data protection concepts, backup strategies, and disaster recovery.
- At least 5 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, such as Terraform or Ansible.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Kubernetes, including CSI and COSI drivers and CNIs.
- Deep understanding of storage performance.
- Strong understanding of public cloud features, such as SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, and identity management.
- Experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Software Defined Storage.
- Experience implementing open-source or commercial storage monitoring solutions.
Responsibilities
- Author performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
- Draft standard operating procedures and alerting and monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
- Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, including vendor and customer permissions.
- Lead technical communications with vendors.
- Serve as a subject matter expert for customer success and complex account assistance.
- Identify and act on signals for operational ownership.
- Mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.
Benefits
- Generous cash and equity compensation.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
- 401(k) plan with a 2% company match for U.S. employees.
- Flexible paid time off plan.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
