Cloud Storage Engineering Lead for Global AI/HPC

Vultr

United States

Remote

USD 135,000 - 160,000

Full time

14 days+

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Job summary

Vultr seeks a Senior Manager of Cloud Storage Engineering to lead the storage engineering and operations team responsible for Vultr’s cloud storage portfolio. You will oversee design, deployment, and operation of block, object and file storage services globally across all regions and performance tiers—from Archival to Standard to Accelerated.

This role shapes the storage backbone powering countless workloads.

Qualifications

7+ years of storage engineering experience including leadership in management roles.
Deep expertise with Ceph and distributed storage architectures in production environments.
Experience building and operating multi-tenant cloud storage services at scale.
Strong understanding of block, object and file storage protocols and performance characteristics.
Experience with third-party enterprise storage platforms (DDN, VAST, Weka, NetApp) is a strong plus.
Knowledge of high-performance storage optimization techniques for AI and HPC workloads is a plus.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.

Responsibilities

Lead and grow a high-performing team of storage engineers and operators across multiple regions.
Own the technical delivery for Vultr’s block, object and file storage products across all performance tiers.
Drive architecture decisions for multi-tenant, multi-tier storage platforms serving diverse workload profiles.
Ensure five-nines availability, durability, and performance SLAs across the global storage fleet.
Integrate and operationalize third-party storage solutions as needed.
Optimize storage systems for AI and HPC workloads requiring extreme throughput and low latency.
Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and customer success teams to define storage offerings and SLAs.
Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and vendor relationships across the storage stack.