Principal Engineer, Storage

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Requirements:

• 10+ years of experience in storage engineering, with a focus on performance, distributed systems, scalability, and reliability.
• Proven experience leading storage product engineering projects and building products to address customer needs.
• Proficiency in one or more programming languages (e.g. Go, C, Rust).
• Deep experience of one or more storage protocols (e.g. nfs, s3).
• Deep experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments.
• Good understanding of distributed observability systems such as ClickHouse for telemetry at scale.
• In-depth development experience with open or closed source storage systems (e.g. Ceph, DAOS).
• Strong understanding of cloud computing infrastructure using Kubernetes, scalable architectures, and automation.
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to synthesize problem statements from interactions with customers and design solutions given ambiguous requirements.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, able to convey storage engineering strategies and practices to technical and non-technical audiences.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the strategy and implementation for storage engineering, ensuring alignment with business goals and performance objectives.
• Design and implement advanced storage solutions, including high performance, exabyte-scale S3-compatible object storage and integration of dedicated storage clusters into customer environments.
• Architect and lead the integration/implementation of technologies such as RDMA, Infiniband, GPU Direct Storage, and SPDK.
• Champion initiatives to improve the reliability, durability, and self-healing capabilities of storage products, and assume operational responsibilities.
• Help shape customer experience by promoting unparalleled visibility into our systems’ performance and reliability with customer facing metrics and dashboards.
• Analyze telemetry for production systems to identify opportunities for improvement in performance and reliability.
• Develop operational review practices for storage engineering to assess performance against targets and iterating on those targets.
• Act as a trusted advisor to senior leadership, providing insights on storage industry trends and advocating for investments in storage technologies.
• Collaborate with engineering, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage solutions align with evolving project requirements and technical architecture.
• Mentor and guide engineering teams on best practices in product engineering, fostering a customer-focused approach to systems design and technical excellence.