Storage & Data Infrastructure Engineer — Chicago

Selby Jennings; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 175,000 - 225,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Job summary

Selby Jennings in Chicago seeks a Storage & Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale storage and data platforms. You will improve reliability, performance, and observability while tackling complex infrastructure challenges in a high-performance trading environment.

The role emphasizes Linux tuning, Python/Java tooling, Kubernetes-based platforms, and open-source/storage technologies within distributed data ecosystems. On-site with strong ownership and impact.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in storage, infrastructure, systems, or distributed systems engineering.
• Deep Linux administration and performance tuning experience.
• Strong Python and/or Java development skills.
• Background supporting Hadoop, YARN, distributed compute, or data platforms.
• Experience with storage technologies including object storage, enterprise storage, or open-source storage solutions.
• Experience with configuration management and automation tools such as Ansible or Puppet.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes and containerized infrastructure.
• Experience with Prometheus, monitoring, alerting, and observability platforms.
• Strong troubleshooting, reliability, and performance optimization skills.

Responsibilities

• Design, deploy, and operate large-scale storage and data infrastructure supporting critical business systems.
• Engineer scalable storage solutions across enterprise, open-source, and S3-compatible platforms.
• Optimize Linux environments for throughput, latency, I/O performance, and reliability.
• Develop infrastructure services, tooling, and automation in Python and Java.
• Build and maintain Kubernetes-based infrastructure and data platforms.
• Architect and support Hadoop ecosystems and large-scale data processing environments.
• Partner with engineering teams supporting Kafka and other distributed data systems.
• Create observability and monitoring solutions using Prometheus and related tooling.
• Automate provisioning, deployment, configuration management, and operational workflows.
• Drive architectural improvements as storage and data demands continue to grow.

Skills

Storage engineering

Linux performance

Python/Java development

Hadoop/YARN/distributed compute

Kubernetes

Prometheus/observability

Ansible/Puppet

S3-compatible/object storage

Distributed storage systems

Tools

Prometheus

Kafka

Open-source storage

Job description

Selby Jennings in Chicago seeks a Storage & Data Infrastructure Engineer to design, deploy, and operate large-scale storage and data platforms. You will improve reliability, performance, and observability while tackling complex infrastructure challenges in a high-performance trading environment.

The role emphasizes Linux tuning, Python/Java tooling, Kubernetes-based platforms, and open-source/storage technologies within distributed data ecosystems. On-site with strong ownership and impact.