Remote Storage Engineer – Open-Source & Scalable Infra

Jobgether; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Fully remote work (Slovenia)

WeWork coworking support

Equity ownership (ESOP)

Home office equipment stipend

Health insurance coverage

Flexible asynchronous work

Education allowance

Annual company off-sites

Open-source collaboration

International team

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, is seeking a software engineer specializing in storage in the United States. You will build a high-performance object storage platform, spanning client libraries, servers, and deployment tooling, addressing distributed systems, upload reliability, caching, and performance.

Join a globally distributed, open-source–first team and help shape APIs, tooling, and storage workflows while delivering scalable infrastructure used by developers worldwide.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of backend engineering experience, including operating Node.js applications in production environments.
• Experience designing, building, or operating highly scalable distributed systems.
• Comfort working across the technology stack, including backend application development and infrastructure deployment, monitoring, and scaling.
• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, and Grafana.
• Experience with performance tuning, production troubleshooting, and improving the reliability of distributed services.
• Strong practical experience with PostgreSQL in production, including database tuning and troubleshooting.
• A demonstrated ownership mindset, with the ability to drive projects independently from initial problem definition through delivery.
• A strong appreciation for developer experience and a commitment to building intuitive, reliable tools that help developers work efficiently.
• Ability to collaborate effectively in a fast-paced, asynchronous, globally distributed team environment.

Responsibilities

• Enhance storage capabilities: Improve analytics storage offerings and support open file formats, including Apache Iceberg and DuckLake, to enable efficient storage and management of analytical data.
• Optimize asset delivery: Develop asset optimization capabilities that improve delivery speed and performance for websites and mobile applications.
• Expand edge infrastructure: Build and improve the edge network to accelerate uploads and implement features such as automatic cache invalidation.
• Improve storage server performance: Enhance the performance, observability, scalability, and reliability of the storage server through continuous monitoring, troubleshooting, and optimization.
• Develop storage exploration tools: Collaborate with frontend engineers to build a fast, intuitive, and powerful storage explorer.
• Improve developer experience: Enhance APIs, client libraries, and command-line interface (CLI) tools to deliver a seamless, consistent experience throughout the development workflow.
• Strengthen upload and download reliability: Identify opportunities to improve upload resilience, optimize protocol behavior, and streamline processing across different clients and environments.
• Contribute to open source: Develop and maintain open-source storage server components and contribute improvements to upstream dependencies where appropriate.
• Resolve technical issues: Address escalated support cases, investigate underlying causes, and implement systemic improvements that prevent recurring problems.
• Work across the technology stack: Contribute to backend development, infrastructure deployment, monitoring, scaling, and service operations as needed.
• Drive projects end to end: Take ownership of engineering initiatives, from identifying problems and designing solutions through implementation, testing, deployment, and ongoing improvement.

Skills

Backend engineering

Node.js production

Distributed systems

Observability & monitoring

PostgreSQL in production

Ownership mindset

Developer experience

Async collaboration

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

GCP

Azure

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, is seeking a software engineer specializing in storage in the United States. You will build a high-performance object storage platform, spanning client libraries, servers, and deployment tooling, addressing distributed systems, upload reliability, caching, and performance.

Join a globally distributed, open-source–first team and help shape APIs, tooling, and storage workflows while delivering scalable infrastructure used by developers worldwide.