At IMC technology is at the core of everything we do and how we build and maintain our storage infrastructure is key to our global success. Our Storage Engineering team scales our storage infrastructure to support growing data volumes and multiple global research initiatives. As a Storage Engineer you will also strengthen our global team by providing expert support balancing workloads across regions and ensuring our systems can efficiently handle current and future storage demands.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Design deploy and manage our global storage platform ensuring high performance massive scalability reliability and future-proof solutions
- Collaborate with cross-functional research and engineering teams enabling them to leverage high-performance storage solutions optimize data workflows and accelerate computational workloads across global infrastructures
- Diagnose and resolve complex storage Linux and networking challenges in a fast-paced environment
- Integrate storage systems with distributed computing clusters ensuring seamless compatibility with hardware and software across multiple locations
- Participate in follow-the-sun support responding proactively to critical storage issues and ensuring continuous uptime for our operations worldwide
Your Skills and Experience:
- 5 years of experience in system storage architecture and system design within a large-scale compute environment.
- Storage system design and optimization with systems like Lustre GPFS S3 BeeGFS Weka Ceph Vast PowerScale DDN MinIO.
- Strong Linux Engineering skills including bare-metal.
- Understanding of the implementation of storage stack from the kernel to user space (including file systems block storage I/O schedulers VFS).
- Storage benchmarking and performance tuning with experience analyzing throughput latency IOPS and workload-specific optimizations.
- Ability to manage large-scale performance-critical environments including capacity planning scaling and optimization.
- Knowledge of hardware components critical to storage systems including NVMe CPU/GPU/xPU architectures PCIe power utilization NIC (eth/ib) PMEM SCM RedFish and how they impact performance and scalability.
- Proficiency in programming with languages such as Rust Python Go or Bash.
- Nice to haves: Kubernetes CSI Slurm AWS GCP HDFS AI/ML frameworks Prometheus and Terraform/Ansible.
- Exceptional communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to non-technical audiences.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative high-performance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.