Technical Lead, Exabyte-Scale Object Storage (Hybrid)

SoCode US; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 220,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) retirement plan

Life insurance

AD&D insurance

Disability insurance

Wellness program

Hybrid work (3 days)

Job summary

SoCode US in Boston is hiring a Lead Systems Software Engineer to direct a new object storage engineering team. You will guide technical direction and architect critical components along the S3 request path, data path, durability and data movement while staying hands‑on.

The role emphasizes deep systems work, low‑latency code paths, erasure coding, and distributed‑systems correctness at exabyte scale. Boston hybrid work arrangement and competitive compensation offered.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of software development in Go, Python, C, C++ or Rust (or equivalent systems‑level expertise).
• Strong distributed‑systems and high‑performance storage‑software design experience.
• Deep Linux: systems programming, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of complex systems.

Responsibilities

• Act as technical lead for a new object storage team while remaining substantially hands‑on.
• Drive technical direction and key architectural decisions across the data path, durability, S3 and data movement.
• Design and build critical components, lead design and code reviews, and ensure solid automated testing and CI coverage.
• Own complex durability and data‑placement work – including erasure coding – ensuring correctness under node loss, disk faults, partial writes and network partitions.
• Mentor engineers, grow technical ownership across the team, and partner with the manager on scope, sequencing and risk.

Skills

Go

Python

C

C++

Rust

Distributed systems

High-performance storage

Job description

SoCode US in Boston is hiring a Lead Systems Software Engineer to direct a new object storage engineering team. You will guide technical direction and architect critical components along the S3 request path, data path, durability and data movement while staying hands‑on.

The role emphasizes deep systems work, low‑latency code paths, erasure coding, and distributed‑systems correctness at exabyte scale. Boston hybrid work arrangement and competitive compensation offered.