Remote Storage Engineer – Open-Source & Edge

Jobgether; Australia; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

Coworking support

Equity ownership

Technology allowance

Health insurance

Flexible working arrangements

Professional development

Annual company off-sites

Open-source collaboration

International environment

Compensation transparency

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer – Storage based in Australia to help build and scale a high-performance object storage platform. You will work across the stack from client libraries and CLI tools to storage servers, tackling distributed systems challenges and contributing to open‑source projects.

You will collaborate with a globally distributed team, improve APIs and tooling, and drive storage workflows while delivering reliable and scalable solutions for millions of users.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of backend engineering experience in production environments.
• Experience designing, building, or operating highly scalable distributed systems.
• Comfort across the stack, including backend development and infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with performance tuning, production troubleshooting, and improving reliability of distributed services.
• Strong practical experience with PostgreSQL in production, including database tuning and troubleshooting.
• A demonstrated ownership mindset, with the ability to drive projects independently from initial problem definition through delivery.
• A strong appreciation for developer experience and a commitment to building intuitive, reliable tools that help developers work efficiently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, asynchronous, globally distributed team environment.

Responsibilities

• Enhance storage capabilities: Improve analytics storage offerings and support open file formats, including Apache Iceberg and DuckLake, to enable efficient storage and management of analytical data.
• Optimize asset delivery: Develop asset optimization capabilities that improve delivery speed and performance for websites and mobile applications.
• Expand edge infrastructure: Build and improve the edge network to accelerate uploads and implement features such as automatic cache invalidation.
• Improve storage server performance: Enhance the performance, observability, scalability, and reliability of the storage server through continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Develop storage exploration tools: Collaborate with frontend engineers to build a fast, intuitive, and powerful storage explorer.
• Improve developer experience: Enhance APIs, client libraries, and command-line interface (CLI) tools to deliver a seamless, consistent experience throughout the development workflow.
• Strengthen upload and download reliability: Identify opportunities to improve upload resilience, optimize protocol behavior, and streamline processing across different clients and environments.
• Contribute to open source: Develop and maintain open-source storage server components and contribute improvements to upstream dependencies where appropriate.
• Resolve technical issues: Address escalated support cases, investigate underlying causes, and implement systemic improvements that prevent recurring problems.
• Work across the technology stack: Contribute to backend development, infrastructure deployment, monitoring, scaling, and service operations as needed.
• Drive projects end to end: Take ownership of engineering initiatives, from identifying problems and designing solutions through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.

Skills

Backend engineering

Node.js production

Distributed systems

Observability tools

PostgreSQL production

Ownership mindset

Developer experience

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer – Storage based in Australia to help build and scale a high-performance object storage platform. You will work across the stack from client libraries and CLI tools to storage servers, tackling distributed systems challenges and contributing to open‑source projects.

You will collaborate with a globally distributed team, improve APIs and tooling, and drive storage workflows while delivering reliable and scalable solutions for millions of users.