Senior Storage Software Engineer

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• We are looking for an experienced Storage Software Engineer with 12-15 years of software engineering experience to design architect and build highly scalable Block File and Object Storage platforms in Kubernetes environments.
• This is a deeply hands-on engineering role that combines systems programming distributed systems storage architecture and cloud-native technologies. You will be responsible for building production-grade storage software with a strong focus on performance scalability reliability availability and data durability.
• The ideal candidate can take complex storage challenges end-to-endfrom architecture and design to coding testing performance optimization troubleshooting and production deploymentwhile collaborating with other engineers to continuously evolve and strengthen the storage platform.

• Design and develop distributed Block File and Object Storage systems.

• Architect highly available scalable fault-tolerant and high-performance storage platforms.

• Write and review production-quality code using C/C and/or Go.

• Build Kubernetes-native storage solutions including CSI controllers operators and APIs.

• Develop and optimize storage data-plane and control-plane components.

• Lead architecture development and solve complex technical problems spanning multiple systems and domains.

• Define the future state and technical roadmap of the storage platform balancing near-term delivery with long-term scalable architecture.

• Identify common patterns and build reusable technology solutions rather than solving only individual use cases.

• Drive modernization of the technology stack and influence adoption of new architectures and technologies across teams.

• Proactively identify design gaps related to performance security reliability availability failover recovery maintainability and scalability.

• Lead architecture and design reviews and create high-quality technical and architecture documentation.

• Mentor engineers and raise the technical and engineering standards of the broader team.

• Debug complex issues across Kubernetes Linux networking and storage layers.

• Lead complex engineering initiatives spanning multiple teams systems and technical domains.

• Shape technical strategy and help translate long-term product vision into an executable engineering roadmap.

• Use AI coding agents to your advantage to boost productivity and lead us to the future of AI native engineering. Capable of giving the right context and detailed requirements to the Agent.

• Shepherd multiple teams through architecture development testing and production delivery.

• Act as an engineering multiplier by building reusable platforms frameworks tools and processes.

• Influence technical direction beyond the immediate team and advocate for solutions that can be adopted broadly.

• Balance incremental improvements with transformational architectural changes when appropriate.

• Drive technology decisions that result in measurable improvements in reliability performance scalability engineering velocity and customer experience.

• Take ownership of business and customer outcomes rather than simply executing predefined requirements.

• Bachelors or Master degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering.

• Strong software engineering experience in storage and/or distributed systems.

• Proficiency in C/C Go or Rust

• Strong understanding of Linux concurrency networking and storage I/O.

• Experience with Kubernetes and cloud-native architectures.

• Knowledge of technologies such as NVMe iSCSI NFS S3 SPDK CSI UBD.

• Proven ability to architect and lead complex technical projects across teams.

• Strong communication technical leadership mentoring troubleshooting and performance optimization skills.

Additional Details

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