Remote Senior Ceph Storage Engineer for Petabyte GPU Infra

REALM; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

REALM is seeking a senior, hands-on storage architect to own the Ceph-based infrastructure powering petabyte-scale storage for GPU-intensive workloads. You will oversee architecture, deployment, and day-to-day operation across object, block, and file services.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and collaborate with compute/network teams, while participating in a shared on-call rotation with compensation.

Qualifications

• Strong practical experience with Ceph covering architecture, deployment, troubleshooting, day-to-day operations, and optimisation.
• Experience running distributed storage infrastructure at significant production scale.
• A history of taking ownership of an infrastructure or storage domain and driving its technical direction.
• Experience supporting and developing other engineers through mentoring and technical collaboration

Responsibilities

• Own the architecture and production lifecycle of Ceph-based storage infrastructure at very large scale.
• Help develop and operate an S3-compatible object storage offering, including access control, bucket and object workflows, reliability targets, observability and incident response
• Work across the Ceph stack, including RADOS Gateway, RBD, and CephFS
• Provide technical mentorship through design discussions, reviews, pairing, and participation in the on-call rotation
• Evolve the storage platform as capacity grows from the petabyte range into substantially larger deployments
• Partner with infrastructure teams responsible for compute and networking to ensure storage meets the needs of high-performance and GPU-heavy environments

Skills

Ceph architecture

Ceph deployment

Ceph troubleshooting

Distributed storage

Linux fundamentals

Networking fundamentals

On-call rotation

Mentoring engineers

Ownership of infrastructure

Tools

RADOS Gateway

RBD

CephFS

Job description

REALM is seeking a senior, hands-on storage architect to own the Ceph-based infrastructure powering petabyte-scale storage for GPU-intensive workloads. You will oversee architecture, deployment, and day-to-day operation across object, block, and file services.

You will mentor engineers, drive technical direction, and collaborate with compute/network teams, while participating in a shared on-call rotation with compensation.