Staff Storage Architect: Petabyte-Scale AI Systems

Cloudjobs

San Francisco (CA)

On-site

USD 200,000 - 260,000

Full time

5 days ago
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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

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

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