Senior Storage Platform Engineer for Cloud & AI

Academic Key; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual leave 25 days

Culture of results

Open communication

Learning time

Job summary

Radiant in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Storage to design, build, and operate storage services that power demanding cloud and AI workloads. You will own significant parts of the storage platform from design through production, collaborating with product, SRE, networking, and security teams, while mentoring engineers and contributing to standards.

Join a fast-paced team building across object, block, and file storage with strong emphasis on performance, resilience,

Qualifications

• Solid experience building and operating distributed storage systems or storage-heavy cloud infrastructure.
• Experience owning significant components end to end, from design through production and operation.
• Strong hands-on engineering skills in one or more systems languages such as Go or similar.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and own components of Radiant's storage services, and contribute to the architecture and technical designs for the platform.
• Build storage systems across object, block, and file, including control plane and data plane services and their integration with existing Radiant services.
• Turn product and customer requirements into well-designed APIs and implementations, working with the Storage Product Manager and Principal Engineers.
• Deliver against the performance, durability, availability, and consistency targets of the storage platform.
• Profile, benchmark, and tune throughput, latency, and IOPS for AI training, inference, and other data-intensive workloads.
• Build integrations between storage and compute, Kubernetes (CSI), networking, IAM, observability, and developer tooling.
• Build for failure through replication, snapshots, data protection, failure recovery, and safe upgrades at scale.

Skills

Distributed storage systems

End-to-end ownership

Go or systems language

S3, NFS, SMB, CSI

Kubernetes

Observability & security

AI/HPC storage patterns

Tools

WEKA

VAST

DDN

Lustre

Ceph

MinIO

Pure Storage

Job description

Radiant in the United Kingdom is seeking a Senior Software Engineer – Storage to design, build, and operate storage services that power demanding cloud and AI workloads. You will own significant parts of the storage platform from design through production, collaborating with product, SRE, networking, and security teams, while mentoring engineers and contributing to standards.

Join a fast-paced team building across object, block, and file storage with strong emphasis on performance, resilience,