Senior Staff Storage Engineer — Distributed, Multi-Tenant

IBM; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM's Software group in San Diego seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Kora Storage team. You will tackle deep systems challenges, guide architecture, and mentor engineers as you shape durable, multi-tenant storage for cloud-native services.

You'll lead design and implementation of high-throughput storage components, collaborate across product management and design, and influence technical standards while delivering scalable, cost-efficient solutions.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of backend or infrastructure development experience.
• BS/MS/PhD in CS or related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Proficiency in statically typed languages: Java, Scala, C/C++, Go.
• Experience designing large-scale distributed storage systems.
• Deep knowledge of distributed systems concepts: fault tolerance, consistency, scalability.
• Systems-level understanding of disks, networks, operating systems, etc.

Responsibilities

• Storage Engine Development: design and develop a highly available, scalable storage engine for Kora.
• Engineering Leadership: set standards and drive end-to-end technical solutions.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: work with product, design and other teams to integrate storage features.
• Mentoring: guide engineers and shape long-term technical direction.

Skills

Backend development

Distributed systems

Leadership

Mentoring

Java/Scala/C/C++/Go

Education

CS degree

Tools

Apache Kafka

Apache Iceberg

Apache Flink

Job description

IBM's Software group in San Diego seeks a Senior Staff Software Engineer to join the Kora Storage team. You will tackle deep systems challenges, guide architecture, and mentor engineers as you shape durable, multi-tenant storage for cloud-native services.

You'll lead design and implementation of high-throughput storage components, collaborate across product management and design, and influence technical standards while delivering scalable, cost-efficient solutions.