22 hours ago
Base Salary
$228k - $339k/yr
Responsibilities
- Own the architecture and technical implementation of the StorageGRID S3 data path, including request processing, metadata storage, replication, and erasure-coded data flows.
- Lead performance analysis and benchmarking, identify bottlenecks, and deliver performance improvements.
- Design for multi-site, cross-grid replication and globally federated namespaces across hundreds of nodes and exabytes of capacity.
- Drive cross-cutting data path initiatives from architecture through implementation, validation, and release readiness.
- Remain hands-on with code, complex bugs, technical designs, reviews, root-cause analysis, and engineering standards.
- Set technical direction for StorageGRID data path engineering and align architecture across teams.
- Mentor Senior and Member of Technical Staff engineers on data path internals, performance optimization, distributed-systems design, and debugging.
- Collaborate with quality engineering, product management, supportability, support, and field teams to translate customer needs into improvements.
Requirements
- 12+ years of experience in systems, storage, distributed systems, or performance engineering with a record of technical leadership.
- Strong hands-on programming skills in one or more of C, C++, Go, or Python, plus experience debugging distributed software in Linux environments.
- Experience building or owning an object storage system, S3 implementation, or large-scale distributed storage or database product.
- Experience with request data paths, data placement, replication or erasure coding, consistency, and failure handling.
- Experience with Apache Cassandra or a comparable distributed database at scale.
- Ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct authority.
- Preferred experience with S3 protocol semantics such as multipart operations, versioning, and Object Lock/WORM.
- Preferred experience with load balancing, networking, NVMe, SSD, HDD, and x86 hardware.
- Preferred experience with AI-assisted development and observability tooling for analysis, debugging, testing, and documentation.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package that may include health insurance, life insurance, retirement or pension plans, paid time off, leave options, employee stock purchase plans, and restricted stock units, subject to regional variations and company policies.
- The role is being considered in Vancouver, Canada and Raleigh, North Carolina.
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