Site Reliability Engineer - Ceph Storage

GoDaddy•Austin, TX

5d•$98,500 - $192,000•Remote

About The Position

GoDaddy's Global Storage Engineering team operates one of the largest Ceph environments in the industry, powering the object, block, and file storage platforms that underpin hosting, applications, internal infrastructure, and next-generation AI/HPC workloads. As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be a key technical owner of the platform, responsible for maintaining reliability, driving operational excellence, and influencing the future evolution of our storage ecosystem. You'll tackle challenging production problems, develop automation that operates at massive scale, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with some of the industry's most experienced Ceph engineers. This is an opportunity to have direct impact on a storage platform that serves millions of customers worldwide.

Requirements

5+ years operating large-scale Linux infrastructure with significant experience supporting distributed storage systems in production environments.
2+ years hands-on Ceph administration including OSD, MON, MDS, and RGW operations, CRUSH map management, pool design, placement groups, and performance troubleshooting.
Strong understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems, block devices, and performance analysis under production workloads.
Experience developing operational automation and tooling with Python, Shell, and configuration management platforms such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef.
Proven incident response expertise, including production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, postmortem creation, and implementation of durable corrective actions.

Nice To Haves

Advanced Ceph expertise across RGW Multisite, CephFS, RBD Mirroring, erasure coding, and large-scale cluster design.
Experience integrating storage platforms with OpenStack (Cinder, Nova, Neutron, Swift) or Kubernetes storage technologies (CSI, StorageClasses, Rook).
Familiarity with modern observability platforms including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Grafana, and enterprise monitoring architectures.
Experience planning and executing petabyte-scale storage migrations, capacity expansion programs, and storage hardware lifecycle management.
Contributions to open-source infrastructure or storage projects and a passion for advancing distributed systems technologies.

Responsibilities

Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of large-scale production Ceph environments supporting object, block, and file storage workloads (RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS).
Diagnose and resolve complex distributed systems issues including recovery/backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW performance bottlenecks.
Design and build automation using Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience at scale.
Define and improve observability for the storage platform through SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting strategies.
Lead storage lifecycle initiatives including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migration projects.