Staff Storage Engineer for AI Infrastructure

Socket.dev; Bellevue (WA); On-site; USD 207,000 - 303,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

Company-paid Life Insurance

Tuition Reimbursement

401(k) with employer match

Flexible PTO

Catered lunch

Job summary

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Storage Engineer to design, build, and operate high-performance storage for AI workloads. You will design scalable multi-tenant file and block storage, integrate clusters into customer environments, and work with RDMA, SPDK, and related tech to optimize performance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and contribute to reliability, observability, and telemetry. The role requires 10+ years in storage and strong systems programming skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master’s in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, or equivalent experience.
• 10+ years in storage systems engineering or infrastructure.
• Hands-on production experience with distributed file systems or block storage.
• Storage protocols (e.g. NFS, S3) and file systems such as Ceph, Lustre, DAOS, or similar.
• Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Rust, C++, or Go.
• Cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture.
• Storage observability and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana).
• Strong debugging in distributed, high-performance environments, and clear communication across teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly scalable multi-tenant file and block storage from data path through control plane.
• Build distributed file storage and durable block volumes and integrate clusters into customer environments.
• Work with RDMA, GPU Direct Storage and related tech to optimize performance.
• Improve reliability, durability, and observability across the storage stack with telemetry and dashboards.
• Partner with platform, product, and infra teams to deliver storage capabilities across the stack.
• Mentor other engineers on building distributed, high-performance systems.

Skills

Storage systems

Distributed storage

Rust/Go/C++

Kubernetes

RDMA/InfiniBand

Observability/Telemetry

Education

Bachelor's or Master's in CS/Engineering

Tools

Ceph

Lustre

DAOS

SPDK

Prometheus

Grafana

ClickHouse

Job description

CoreWeave is seeking a Staff Storage Engineer to design, build, and operate high-performance storage for AI workloads. You will design scalable multi-tenant file and block storage, integrate clusters into customer environments, and work with RDMA, SPDK, and related tech to optimize performance.

You will mentor engineers, collaborate across teams, and contribute to reliability, observability, and telemetry. The role requires 10+ years in storage and strong systems programming skills.