Remote Storage Execution Leader — Durable, Fast Data

United States Digital Space LLC; United States; On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

United States Digital Space LLC is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the New York-based Storage Execution team. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on durability, availability, and high-performance transaction processing for mission-critical workloads.

The role can be based remotely in the United States, with responsibility for roadmap ownership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring engineers to deliver scalable storage solutions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years building, debugging, and tuning distributed and/or highly concurrent systems software (databases, storage engines, filesystems, or similar).
• 2+ years managing engineers directly, including hiring, performance management, and coaching across a range of levels.
• Willing to work East Coast hours.
• Strong proficiency in at least one compiled, statically-typed language such as C++, Rust, or Go; prior C++ and systems programming experience is a plus.
• Deep understanding of durability, availability, and performance tradeoffs in distributed systems; experience with replication, consensus, storage engines, or transactional systems is highly desirable.
• Demonstrated customer obsession: direct experience working with demanding customers (or customer support / cloud teams) on complex incidents and turning them into clear, outcome-oriented recommendations.
• Proven ability to develop people: mentoring and promoting engineers, managing underperformance directly, and building high-engagement teams with low regretted attrition.
• Comfortable leading multi-quarter initiatives with multiple stakeholders and using written documents to align teams on design, scope, and tradeoffs.

Responsibilities

• Lead, grow and manage a New York-based team of 8 to 10 engineers; ensure clear expectations, high standards, and healthy, sustainable execution.
• Own the team’s roadmap across durability, availability, performance, and developer productivity, in partnership with OLTP leadership and Product Management.
• Manage customer escalations involving storage behavior and durability; work directly with Support, Atlas, and other server teams to reproduce, root-cause, and resolve issues.
• Drive process and tooling improvements that raise engineering velocity and code quality (e.g., ownership, review expectations, customer escalation and build failure practices).
• Partner closely with Replication, Query, Sharding, Catalog & Routing, Storage Engines, and Atlas teams on cross-team features such as the new storage architecture, availability improvements, and workload management.
• Represent Storage Execution in planning, staffing, and calibration; make thoughtful tradeoffs between near-term deliverables, longer-term availability gaps, and platform investments.

Skills

Distributed systems

People management

Customer focus

East Coast hours

C++

Rust

Go

Job description

United States Digital Space LLC is looking for a Senior Engineering Manager to lead the New York-based Storage Execution team. This is a hands-on leadership role focused on durability, availability, and high-performance transaction processing for mission-critical workloads.

The role can be based remotely in the United States, with responsibility for roadmap ownership, cross-team collaboration, and mentoring engineers to deliver scalable storage solutions.