Principal Storage Engineer — Cloud & AI

Academic Key; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

25 days annual leave

Job summary

Radiant in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Software Engineer - Storage to drive the technical direction of cloud storage services for demanding AI workloads. You will own architecture for object, block, and file storage, and integrate with compute, Kubernetes CSI, and security teams.

You will mentor engineers, raise the bar on design standards, and partner with customers to address highly technical storage challenges. Strong leadership and advanced storage expertise are essential.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience building and operating large-scale distributed storage systems.
• Hands-on engineering in Go or similar languages.
• Proven ability to lead technical direction across multiple teams.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical vision and architecture for radiants storage services.
• Design and implement storage systems across object, block and file storage.
• Coordinate with product, SRE, networking, and security teams to meet workload requirements.
• Ensure performance, durability, availability, and consistency targets are met.

Skills

Go

Distributed storage

Kubernetes

S3 protocol

LB/Reliability design

Tools

WEKA

VAST

DDN

Lustre

Ceph

MinIO

Pure Storage

Job description

Radiant in the United Kingdom seeks a Principal Software Engineer - Storage to drive the technical direction of cloud storage services for demanding AI workloads. You will own architecture for object, block, and file storage, and integrate with compute, Kubernetes CSI, and security teams.

You will mentor engineers, raise the bar on design standards, and partner with customers to address highly technical storage challenges. Strong leadership and advanced storage expertise are essential.