Staff Software Engineer - Infrastructure Storage

Cloudjobs; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 200,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cash compensation

Equity compensation

Health coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Wellness stipend

Commuter stipend

401k with 2% match

Flexible PTO

Job summary

Cloudjobs seeks a senior Storage Systems Engineer to set the technical direction for petabyte-scale storage software and lead cross-functional initiatives across storage, networking, and compute teams. You will design and maintain high-performance storage systems across file, block, and object protocols to support advanced AI workloads.

The role requires 10+ years of production storage systems engineering experience, proficiency in C/C++, Rust, or Go, and deep expertise in S3, NVMe-oF, or

Qualifications

• 10+ years of storage systems engineering experience in production environments.
• Strong proficiency in systems-level programming (C, C++, Rust, or Go).
• Deep expertise in storage protocols such as S3, NVMe-oF, or Lustre.

Responsibilities

• Set the technical direction for petabyte-scale storage software architecture.
• Lead cross-functional initiatives across storage, networking, and compute teams.
• Design and maintain high-performance storage systems across file, block, and object protocols to support AI workloads.

Skills

Storage Systems Engineering

Distributed Systems

Performance Profiling

Infrastructure Architecture

Tools

C++

Rust

Go

C

NVMe-oF

S3

NFS

Lustre

Kubernetes

RDMA

DPDK

SPDK

Performance Profiling

Infrastructure Architecture

Job description

Set the technical direction for petabyte-scale storage software architecture and lead cross-functional initiatives across storage, networking, and compute teams. Design and maintain high-performance storage systems across file, block, and object protocols to support advanced AI workloads.

Requirements: Requires 10+ years of storage systems engineering experience with a proven track record of operating multi-petabyte infrastructure in production. Must be proficient in systems-level programming (C, C++, Rust, or Go) and have deep expertise in storage protocols like S3, NVMe-oF, or Lustre.

Key Skills: Storage Systems Engineering, Distributed Systems, C++, Rust, Go, C, NVMe-oF, S3, NFS, Lustre, Kubernetes, RDMA, DPDK, SPDK, Performance Profiling, Infrastructure Architecture

Benefits: Cash compensation, Equity compensation, Health coverage, Dental coverage, Vision coverage, Wellness stipend, Commuter stipend, 401k Plan with 2% company match, Flexible paid time off