Hybrid Cloud Storage Resilience Engineer — Breaker Mindset

Qumulo; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO stock options

Flexible time-off policy

HSA and PPO health insurance

Dental and Vision insurance

401(k) plan

ORCA card or parking subsidy

Job summary

Qumulo’s cloud data platform powers exabytes of data for thousands of customers across edge, core, and cloud. This Systems Resilience Engineer role focuses on breaking features, designing tests, and automating validation to ensure reliability across hardware and cloud environments.

You will design, implement, and maintain data-driven test plans, troubleshoot issues, and help define release quality bar. Open metrics and monitoring culture are emphasized.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and operating automated testing, validation, and/or certification for complex software systems.
• Strong programming ability in C; experience with distributed file systems is a plus.
• Breaker mindset with edge-case discovery and proactive testing.
• Proven track record of building tests themselves, not just following plans.
• Hands-on across on-prem and cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Fluency in Linux and Python.
• Experience with orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform), containers, and Kubernetes.
• Solid understanding of networks; storage or protocol experience a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design and operationalize testing for new features, including scale testing and breakage analysis.
• Automate manual, repetitive testing using Python and in-house frameworks on Jenkins and Argo.
• Build a data-driven plan for tests, including scheduling and reruns.
• Troubleshoot build and test failures across VM instances and hardware.
• Read logs to distinguish test vs infrastructure vs real bug issues.
• Set up monitoring and alerting with OpenMetrics, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Prometheus.
• Help set the quality bar for releases and participate in release decisions.
• Take part in an on-call rotation for the team's systems.

Skills

Automated testing

C programming

Linux

Python

Cloud platforms

Jenkins

Argo

Kubernetes

Ansible

Terraform

Networking fundamentals

Data-driven testing

Distributed file systems

Tools

Jenkins

Argo

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Qumulo’s cloud data platform powers exabytes of data for thousands of customers across edge, core, and cloud. This Systems Resilience Engineer role focuses on breaking features, designing tests, and automating validation to ensure reliability across hardware and cloud environments.

You will design, implement, and maintain data-driven test plans, troubleshoot issues, and help define release quality bar. Open metrics and monitoring culture are emphasized.