Systems Resilience Engineer - Hybrid Cloud Storage

Madrona Venture Labs; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Pre-IPO stock options

Flexible time-off policy

HSA and PPO health insurance options

Dental and Vision insurance

401(k) plan

ORCA card or parking subsidy

Job summary

Qumulo’s cloud data platform is seeking a Systems Resilience Engineer to break features before customers do. You will design tests for new features, automate them with Python, and build a data-driven plan to operate and schedule tests across cloud and on-prem environments.

You’ll troubleshoot failures, read logs to distinguish bugs from infrastructure issues, and help set the quality bar for releases while participating in on-call rotations.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building and operating automated testing, validation, and/or certification for complex software systems.
• Strong programming ability in C. Experience with distributed file systems or parallel filesystems is a plus.
• Hands-on experience across on-premises infrastructure and cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
• Fluent in Linux (Ubuntu) and Python; data-driven tester with a breaker instinct.

Responsibilities

• Design and operationalize testing for new features, including scale testing and edge-case exploration.
• Automate manual tests using Python and our Jenkins/Argo framework.
• Build a data-driven plan for which tests run, how often, and why; schedule and rerun tests.
• Troubleshoot build and test failures across VM instances and hardware; distinguish tests vs. infra issues.
• Read cluster output and logs to identify real bugs; set up monitoring and alerting (OpenMetrics, Grafana, InfluxDB).
• Contribute to setting the quality bar for releases and participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Automated testing

C programming

Python

Linux

Networking basics

Containers

Kubernetes

Open source tooling

Tools

Ansible

Terraform

Jenkins

Argo

Docker

Prometheus

Grafana

InfluxDB

OpenMetrics

Job description

Qumulo's cloud data platform manages exabytes of the world's most demanding data, unifying files, objects, and every workload across edge, core, and cloud.

About the Role:

You’ll be one of the first hires on a team with a single mandate: find out how Qumulo breaks before our customers do. The platform manages exabytes of data for more than 1,100 customers across on-prem and every major cloud, and these are mission-critical workloads where a missed edge case becomes a customer's bad day.

This is a Systems Resilience Engineer role for the engineer who thinks like a breaker. You'll put on the customer's hat, work out how a feature will really get used, and design the tests that push it past its limits across hardware and cloud. You'll automate the testing our principal engineers run by hand today, and decide what gets tested, how often, and why. You'll help build this function from the ground up, including where we set the quality bar and which builds are good enough to ship.

As a Systems Resilience Engineer at Qumulo you will:

• Design and operationalize testing for new features: work out how customers will actually use them, how to scale-test them, and how to break them
• Automate the manual, repetitive testing our principal engineers run by hand today, using Python and our in-house frameworks on Jenkins and Argo
• Build a data-driven plan for which tests run, how often, and why, plus the framework to schedule and rerun them
• Troubleshoot build and test failures across VM instances and Qumulo-qualified hardware, from compile-time errors to integration failures
• Read cluster output and C error logs to tell a test problem from an infrastructure problem from a real bug
• Set up monitoring and alerting so problems surface early (we use OpenMetrics, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Prometheus alongside home-grown tooling)
• Help set the quality bar for releases, including a real say in what ships
• Take part in an on-call rotation for the systems your team owns

Our ideal candidate will have:

• 3+ years building and operating automated testing, validation, and/or certification for complex software systems
• Strong programming ability in C. Experience with Qumulo’s distributed file system, or parallel filesystems, would be a major plus
• A real breaker's instinct. You go looking for edge cases and ask "what happens if I do this?" before anyone asks you to
• A track record of building tests yourself, not just running test plans handed to you
• Hands-on experience across both on-premises infrastructure and cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with a real grasp of where each one's limits are
• Working fluency in Linux (we run Ubuntu) and Python
• A data-driven approach to deciding what to test and how often
• Experience with orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform), containers, and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of networks (routing, firewalls, security inspection devices, switch configuration) a plus
• Storage (IOPS, Latency, read/write patterns) or protocol experience (NFS, SMB, S3, ) a strong plus

The annual pay range for the role is USD $140,000 - $210,000. Individual pay depends on various factors, such as role level, relevant experience, and skills.

Benefits & Perks:

• Pre-IPO stock options
• Flexible time-off policy
• HSA and PPO health insurance options
• Dental and Vision insurance
• 401(k) plan
• Choice of an ORCA card or parking subsidy

About Qumulo:

Built for the most demanding enterprise workloads, from AI and HPC simulations to Splunk Observability, genomics and PACS medical imaging, geospatial datasets, media editing and rendering, and video surveillance, Qumulo unlocks the full power of an organization’s information. Our platform unifies file and object storage across data centers, edge, and public clouds, enabling efficient, accelerated computing and extending the reach of data unbound by protocol or transport limitations.

With more than 1,100 customers and exabytes of data under management, Qumulo powers mission-critical workloads anywhere real-time access to massive file datasets is non-negotiable. Qumulo delivers radical simplicity, hardware freedom, exceptional customer support, and a true hybrid-cloud architecture.

Our Values:

At Qumulo, we are building an open and collaborative culture where people can do their best work with customers as our magnetic field. We act as owners, we share by default, we are data driven and experimental and as an inclusive workplace, we encourage and celebrate multiple points of view. As part of our culture we believe diversity drives innovation.

Equal Opportunity Employer:

Qumulo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law. For more information on Qumulo's Applicant Privacy Policy, please visit: https://qumulo.com/applicant-employee-privacy-notice