Senior Remote Storage Engineer – Open-Source & Edge

Jobgether; New Zealand; Remote; NZD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work

WeWork coworking allowance

Equity/ESOP

Technology allowance

Health insurance

Flexible working

Education allowance

Annual company off-sites

Open-source collaboration

International environment

Compensation transparency

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer – Storage for a role based in New Zealand, offering a fully remote setup with international collaboration. The engineer will help build a high-performance object storage platform, spanning client libraries, storage servers, CDNs, and deployment infrastructure.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, upload reliability, asset optimization, and enhancing developer experience through APIs, tooling, and observability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of backend engineering experience in production environments.
• Experience with scalable distributed systems.
• Familiarity with observability/monitoring tools (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Production PostgreSQL tuning and troubleshooting experience.
• Ownership mindset for end-to-end projects.
• Strong focus on developer experience and tooling.

Responsibilities

• Enhance storage capabilities and support open formats.
• Develop asset optimization for faster delivery.
• Expand edge infrastructure and cache invalidation.
• Improve storage server performance and observability.
• Build storage explorer with frontend collaboration.
• Improve APIs, clients, and CLI tools for a seamless workflow.
• Improve upload/download reliability across clients.
• Contribute to open-source storage components and upstreams.
• Resolve escalated issues and systemic improvements.
• Contribute across backend, infra, monitoring and deployment.
• Drive end-to-end projects from problem to delivery.

Skills

Node.js

Distributed systems

Observability

PostgreSQL

Ownership mindset

Developer experience

Asynchronous collaboration

Backend development

Open-source

Tools

OpenTelemetry

Prometheus

Grafana

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Software Engineer – Storage for a role based in New Zealand, offering a fully remote setup with international collaboration. The engineer will help build a high-performance object storage platform, spanning client libraries, storage servers, CDNs, and deployment infrastructure.

The role emphasizes distributed systems, upload reliability, asset optimization, and enhancing developer experience through APIs, tooling, and observability.