GoDaddy

Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Ceph Storage

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Toronto, CanadaStaff+
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Base Salary

$119k - $231k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and architect large-scale production Ceph clusters, including CRUSH topology, failure domains, replication, erasure coding, hardware selection, and data placement.
  • Lead capacity planning, performance modeling, and hardware qualification across more than 80 production clusters, 20,000+ OSDs, and 300 PB of raw storage.
  • Own major Ceph releases, OpenStack integrations, migrations, and storage modernization initiatives through production execution.
  • Resolve complex cross-functional production incidents involving storage, networking, virtualization, and compute systems.
  • Establish automation, operational standards, and reliability practices that improve scalability, reduce toil, and increase engineering efficiency.
  • Provide technical leadership, architectural direction, and mentorship to engineers working on Ceph design and operations.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience designing, operating, and scaling distributed storage platforms, including deep hands-on ownership of production Ceph environments.
  • Expert knowledge of Ceph, including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD, MON, MGR, and MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding.
  • Experience with storage architecture, capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale.
  • Experience leading major storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs from planning through production execution.
  • Strong automation and software engineering skills using Python and/or Go, with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration experience using tools such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible.
  • Preferred: advanced Ceph expertise including RGW Multisite, RBD Mirroring, CephFS at scale, BlueStore tuning, and erasure-coding optimization.
  • Preferred: OpenStack storage architecture experience with Cinder, Swift, Manila, Nova, and Neutron integrations.
  • Preferred: Kubernetes storage experience with CSI drivers, stateful workloads, StorageClasses, and Rook-based Ceph deployments.
  • Preferred: experience with NetApp, Isilon, Pure, VAST, Weka, DDN, and AI/HPC storage platforms.
  • Preferred: contributions to the Ceph community through upstream development, code reviews, bug fixes, architecture discussions, or open-source storage initiatives.

Benefits

  • Remote work from home with occasional office visits for team events or meetings.
  • Medical, dental, and vision insurance, 401(k) retirement plan, paid sick time, paid flexible time off, paid holidays, and paid Wellness days.
  • Paid parental leave, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, AD&D insurance, mental health or EAP programs, and dependent daycare and backup care benefits.
  • Tuition assistance, adoption, surrogacy, fertility, financial education, and advice benefits.
  • Employee stock purchase plan and other benefits that vary by location and applicable benefit plans.

Tech Stack

AnsibleGoKubernetesOpenStackPythonSwiftTerraform

Categories

DevOpsSite Reliability
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About GoDaddy

5,001-10,000 employees

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