Senior Storage Engineer – Remote, Stock Options

Runware; United States; Remote; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Runware in the United States data fabric is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to own the end-to-end storage architecture for its AI supercomputer fleet. You will design the data path, implement the first version, and set the standard for storage across all pods, ensuring secure, low-latency access to model weights, caches and customer data.

You will work cross-functionally with inference engine, platform and hardware teams, implement high-throughput storage solutions, and automate benchmarks

Qualifications

• 8+ years in storage or systems engineering at scale.
• Experience building storage systems from design to production.
• Hands-on Linux storage expertise: block layer, io_uring, NVMe, filesystems.
• Experience with petabyte-scale object storage and parallel file systems.
• Strong knowledge of NVMe, NVMe-oF and RDMA networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and own the storage architecture across the fleet, including object storage, per-pod NVMe cache, and cross-region replication.
• Build and benchmark the model distribution path and ensure low-latency loads to GPUs.
• Profile end-to-end data paths (disk to GPU memory) and remove bottlenecks at the source.
• Select and operate storage systems (FS, object storage, NVMe enclosures) in production.
• Own capacity planning, monitoring, alerting, and disaster recovery for storage.
• Automate pod bring-up storage with documented playbooks for rapid provisioning.
• Collaborate with inference engine, platform, and hardware teams; feed lessons back to servers/pods.
• Leverage AI to accelerate benchmarks, runbooks, and tooling; enable a small team to scale.
• Ensure data residency, encryption at rest, access controls and in-country placement.

Skills

Linux storage

NVMe / NVMe‑oF

Distributed file systems

S3‑compatible storage

Go / Rust / C/C++

Python

AI tooling / automation

Travel willingness

Tools

Lustre

GPFS

Ceph

WEKA

VAST

Kubernetes CSI

Ceph/Rook

SPDK

DPDK

Ansible

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Runware in the United States data fabric is seeking a Senior Storage Engineer to own the end-to-end storage architecture for its AI supercomputer fleet. You will design the data path, implement the first version, and set the standard for storage across all pods, ensuring secure, low-latency access to model weights, caches and customer data.

You will work cross-functionally with inference engine, platform and hardware teams, implement high-throughput storage solutions, and automate benchmarks