Senior Storage Architect: Petabyte Ceph & AI GPU Workloads

Verda; Santa Clara (UT); Remote; USD 110,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Verda is building a European cloud platform and seeks a Senior Storage Engineer to lead Ceph-based storage architecture and operations for petabyte-scale workloads across object, block, and file storage. You will design, deploy, and optimize distributed storage at scale, coordinating with compute and networking teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Ideal candidates have extensive Ceph experience, strong Linux/DevOps skills, and a track record of leading production storage initiatives.

Qualifications

• Extensive Ceph expertise including deployment, operations, troubleshooting, and performance optimization.
• Experience operating Ceph at multi-petabyte production scale.
• Proven technical leadership managing storage infrastructure end-to-end.
• Engineering mentorship experience.
• Advanced Linux systems/DevOps skills, baremetal and internals knowledge.
• Solid networking expertise with distributed systems debugging capability.
• Mission-critical production infrastructure operations background.
• Infrastructure automation development experience.
• Strong collaboration and cross-team communication abilities.

Responsibilities

• Direct design, deployment, and operation of large-scale production Ceph clusters.
• Establish technical direction for storage infrastructure including architecture and operational standards.
• Launch a managed Object Storage product with access keys, bucket management, and SLOs.
• Scale storage systems to petabytes or hundreds of petabytes.
• Manage Ceph across CephFS, RBD, and RADOS Gateway interfaces.
• Mentor engineers through code review, design collaboration, and shared on-call responsibilities.
• Enhance observability, automation, and operational tooling.
• Diagnose complex performance issues in distributed storage environments.
• Collaborate with compute and networking teams on GPU cluster integration.
• Oversee capacity planning, infrastructure upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Engage in production operations and incident response leadership.

Skills

Ceph Expert

Ceph Ops

Linux/DevOps

Distributed Systems

Mentorship

Networking

Automation

Observability

Tools

Ansible

Prometheus

Grafana

Loki

CephFS

RADOS Gateway

Job description

Verda is building a European cloud platform and seeks a Senior Storage Engineer to lead Ceph-based storage architecture and operations for petabyte-scale workloads across object, block, and file storage. You will design, deploy, and optimize distributed storage at scale, coordinating with compute and networking teams while mentoring junior engineers.

Ideal candidates have extensive Ceph experience, strong Linux/DevOps skills, and a track record of leading production storage initiatives.