Remote Principal Storage Engineer for Kubernetes AI Platform

Mirantis; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mirantis, an IREN company, seeks a principal-level software engineer to design and build storage software for GPU-accelerated AI platforms. You will own a Storage as a Service component and collaborate with PMs and partner engineers to meet evolving requirements.

You should have deep Go experience, production storage systems knowledge, and a track record of leading an engineering team with influence across the organization. This role supports remote collaboration and cross-team efforts.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of software development experience with Go as a primary language.
• 5+ years building or integrating storage systems (distributed, scale-out, NAS, or object).
• Solid understanding of storage fundamentals (file/block/object models, throughput, latency, caching, consistency).
• Experience with Kubernetes storage (CSI, persistent volumes, storage classes) and controllers/operators patterns.
• Strong written and verbal communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Storage Software & Integration: Design and build control-plane services, drivers (e.g., CSI), and tooling that provision, configure, and operate storage for Kubernetes-based AI/compute workloads.
• Integrate high-performance storage platforms — Dell PowerScale, VAST, and comparable systems — into automated, declarative provisioning workflows.
• Build data-path, telemetry, and observability tooling to diagnose and resolve performance, reliability, and scaling issues.
• Software & Automation: Write production-quality software — primarily in Go — with strong testing, code review, and operational rigor.
• Deliver infrastructure-as-code (Terraform/OpenTofu) and GitOps-driven pipelines (ArgoCD or Flux) for storage configuration and lifecycle.
• Support bare-metal and hybrid provisioning where storage intersects host and cluster bring-up.
• Platform & Hybrid Delivery: Deliver storage integration for k0s-based Kubernetes via Cluster API (CAPI) and K0rdent management/child cluster topologies.
• Architect storage software for fully disconnected (air-gapped) environments, including local artifact/mirror connectivity (Harbor) and PKI/TLS considerations.

Skills

Go programming

Distributed storage systems

Kubernetes storage (CSI)

High-performance storage

Cross-functional collaboration

Job description

Mirantis, an IREN company, seeks a principal-level software engineer to design and build storage software for GPU-accelerated AI platforms. You will own a Storage as a Service component and collaborate with PMs and partner engineers to meet evolving requirements.

You should have deep Go experience, production storage systems knowledge, and a track record of leading an engineering team with influence across the organization. This role supports remote collaboration and cross-team efforts.