Senior Staff Engineer – Lustre Distributed Storage & HPC

Jobgether; Clayton (NC); Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work option

Job summary

Jobgether is seeking a Staff Engineer for Lustre to advance distributed storage systems and improve performance and reliability of Lustre file system technology. This hands-on role requires deep Linux and filesystem expertise, with collaboration across engineering, QE, support, and release teams.

You’ll lead design discussions, diagnose complex issues, and drive robust, production-ready solutions for demanding HPC workloads while adopting AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and

Qualifications

• At least 10 years of experience in systems software, distributed systems, storage engineering, Linux kernel development, or filesystem engineering.
• Advanced C programming skills and strong Linux systems debugging capabilities.
• Working knowledge of Linux kernel internals, filesystem semantics, networking, and systems performance analysis.
• Experience with LNet and/or high-performance networking technologies such as RDMA, InfiniBand, RoCE, or TCP-based storage networking.
• Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills with rigorous approach to correctness and reliability.

Responsibilities

• Investigate customer-reported and large-scale deployment issues, perform root‑cause analysis, and implement reliable, maintainable fixes.
• Improve performance, reliability, and fault tolerance across large-scale distributed storage environments.
• Lead and contribute to code reviews, architecture and design discussions, subsystem reviews, and assessments of testing and operational readiness.
• Collaborate with QE and support teams to reproduce complex issues, improve diagnostic information, and expand test coverage for high‑risk failure scenarios.
• Troubleshoot issues across multiple system layers, including clients, servers, networks, and backend storage components.
• Analyze system logs, characterize performance bottlenecks, and validate fixes through targeted testing, failure injection, and performance measurements.
• Improve observability, diagnostics, serviceability, and operational practices across Lustre deployments.

Skills

Linux kernel

C programming

Distributed systems

Performance debugging

Troubleshooting

Tools

Lustre

ZFS

ldiskfs

RDMA

Job description

Jobgether is seeking a Staff Engineer for Lustre to advance distributed storage systems and improve performance and reliability of Lustre file system technology. This hands-on role requires deep Linux and filesystem expertise, with collaboration across engineering, QE, support, and release teams.

You’ll lead design discussions, diagnose complex issues, and drive robust, production-ready solutions for demanding HPC workloads while adopting AI-assisted tooling to accelerate development and