Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Storage Platform

TensorWave • Las Vegas, NV

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About The Position

We are building and operating large-scale infrastructure platforms to support high-performance AI and machine learning workloads across multiple data centers. Our environment includes GPU-intensive systems, high-throughput networking, and distributed storage platforms that must deliver consistent performance at scale. We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer – Storage Platform to own the design, operation, and evolution of our storage systems. This role combines architecture and hands-on operational ownership, ensuring that storage platforms are both well-designed and reliably executed in production. You will be responsible for defining how storage works across the organization while remaining deeply involved in real-world system behavior, performance tuning, and incident response.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in infrastructure, storage, or distributed systems
• Deep hands-on experience with distributed storage systems in production
• Strong experience with Ceph (RBD, CephFS, and/or RGW)
• Experience with high-performance storage platforms such as: Weka, VAST Data, or similar
• Strong understanding of storage performance characteristics
• Strong understanding of data replication and failure domains
• Strong understanding of distributed system design principles
• Strong Linux systems expertise
• Ability to troubleshoot across storage, network, and compute layers

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting AI/ML or HPC workloads
• Familiarity with NVMe-based architectures
• Familiarity with RDMA or high-throughput Ethernet
• Experience integrating storage with Kubernetes at scale
• Experience operating across multiple data centers
• Exposure to object storage and S3-compatible APIs

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve storage architectures supporting Kubernetes (block, file, object storage), AI/ML and high-performance compute workloads
• Evaluate and select storage technologies based on performance (IOPS, throughput, latency), scalability and fault tolerance, operational complexity and maintainability
• Define storage standards, best practices, and reference architectures
• Design for resilience over traditional HA, including failure-domain awareness
• Own production storage platforms, including Ceph (RBD, CephFS, RGW), High-performance NAS (Weka, VAST, or similar)
• Lead lifecycle operations - Cluster design and deployment, expansion and scaling, upgrades and migrations
• Perform and guide capacity planning, performance tuning, failure analysis
• Analyze storage performance across IOPS, throughput, latency, and tail latency
• Identify and resolve bottlenecks across disk subsystems, network paths (including RDMA), client access patterns
• Lead root cause analysis for storage-related incidents
• Ensure storage platforms meet the demands of GPU and Kubernetes workloads
• Define and implement Kubernetes storage patterns - CSI drivers, StorageClasses, persistent storage design
• Troubleshoot complex Kubernetes storage issues involving stateful workloads, provisioning failures, performance anomalies
• Partner with platform teams to align storage with workload requirements
• Design and implement automation for storage deployment and configuration, cluster lifecycle management
• Leverage tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Kubernetes manifests / Helm
• Integrate storage platforms into observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
• Serve as the technical authority for storage across the organization
• Mentor engineers on storage systems, performance, and troubleshooting
• Establish operational standards and best practices
• Drive continuous improvement of storage reliability and performance

Benefits

• Stock Options
• 100% paid Medical, Dental, and Vision insurance for Employees
• Company Health Savings Account Contributions
• 100% paid Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance for Employees
• Life and Voluntary Supplemental Insurance Options
• Other Insurance Options, such as Pet & Legal Insurance
• Various Supplementary Health Benefits, such as discounted Virtual Healthcare Appointments and Serious Illness Support
• Flexible Spending Account
• 401(k)
• Employee Assistance Program
• Flexible PTO
• Paid Holidays
• Parental Leave
• Other In-Office Perks

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed