Senior Site Reliability Engineer - Ceph Storage
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This is a remote position, so you’ll be working remotely from your home.Full-TimeSenior
SalaryBay Area (Santa Clara, San Francisco) and Los Angeles: $128,000 — $192,000 USD; Austin, D.C. Metro, CA (non-Bay Area), HI, IL, MA, NH, OR, VA, WA: $110,500 — $165,500 USD; New York City Metro, Kirkland/Seattle: $117,200 — $175,800 USD; All other US locations not previously listed: $98,500 — $147,500 USD
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years operating large-scale Linux infrastructure with significant experience supporting distributed storage systems in production environments. 2+ years hands-on Ceph administration.
- Required Skills
- PythonGrafanaLinuxAnsibleDistributed Systems
Requirements
- 5+ years operating large-scale Linux infrastructure with significant experience supporting distributed storage systems in production environments.
- 2+ years hands-on Ceph administration including OSD, MON, MDS, and RGW operations, CRUSH map management, pool design, placement groups, and performance troubleshooting.
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems, block devices, and performance analysis under production workloads.
- Experience developing operational automation and tooling with Python, Shell, and configuration management platforms such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef.
- Proven incident response expertise, including production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, postmortem creation, and implementation of durable corrective actions.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of large-scale production Ceph environments supporting object, block, and file storage workloads.
- Diagnose and resolve complex distributed systems issues including recovery/backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW performance bottlenecks.
- Design and build automation using Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience at scale.
- Define and improve observability for the storage platform through SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting strategies.
- Lead storage lifecycle initiatives including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migration projects.
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