Remote Senior Ceph Storage SRE - Scale & Reliability

GoDaddy Inc.; United States; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

GoDaddy is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the Ceph-based storage platform at scale. This remote role supports global production environments, focusing on reliability, automation, and observability across object, block, and file storage workloads.

You'll diagnose complex distributed systems issues, drive capacity planning, lead large migrations, and collaborate with experienced Ceph engineers to shape the future of GoDaddy's storage ecosystem.

Qualifications

• 5+ years operating large-scale Linux infrastructure.
• 2+ years Ceph administration including OSD, MON, MDS, RGW operations and CRUSH map management.
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems and performance analysis under production workloads.
• Experience developing operational automation and tooling with Python, Shell, and configuration management platforms such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef.
• Proven incident response expertise, including production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, postmortem creation, and implementation of durable corrective actions.

Responsibilities

• Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of large-scale production Ceph environments (RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS).
• Diagnose and resolve complex distributed systems issues including recovery/backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW bottlenecks.
• Design and build automation using Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience at scale.
• Define and improve observability for the storage platform through SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting strategies.
• Lead storage lifecycle initiatives including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migration projects.

Skills

Linux admin

Ceph admin

Observability

Automation tooling

Incident response

Tools

Python

Shell

Ansible

SaltStack

Puppet

Chef

Job description

GoDaddy is seeking a Senior Site Reliability Engineer to own the Ceph-based storage platform at scale. This remote role supports global production environments, focusing on reliability, automation, and observability across object, block, and file storage workloads.

You'll diagnose complex distributed systems issues, drive capacity planning, lead large migrations, and collaborate with experienced Ceph engineers to shape the future of GoDaddy's storage ecosystem.