Job Title: Storage Engineer

Duration: 6 months -contract to hire

Location: Sunnyvale, CA – Hybrid

Visa Status: Only GC & USC

Team Summary:

Our team is responsible for architecting, designing, building and maintaining storage software systems for our data centers, consisting of an exabyte scale multi-tenanted disaggregated chunk storage abstraction layer and a remote block storage system.

Job Summary:

As a Staff Software Engineer, you will be a key technical leader and role model within the team. We are looking for someone who designs and develops technology to serve business and technology objectives, understands state-of-the-art storage research, aligns points of view across teams, and makes smart trade-offs. In addition to leadership skills, a successful Staff Software Engineer must exhibit strong technical skills in software engineering and storage.

Suggested Skills:

• Distributed Systems
• C/C , Go, or Rust
• Storage Software

Basic Qualifications:

• BA/BS Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or related technical discipline, or related practical experience.
• 4 years of experience in design and development of storage systems
• 4 years programming experience in object-oriented programming languages such as Python, Java, Javascript, C/C , C#, Objective-C, or Ruby.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience in distributed/clustered storage designs, multiple storage protocols, deploying, analyzing and debugging storage networks
• Experience in configuring, tuning operating systems for use with storage including performance analysis
• Working knowledge of the Kubernetes, CSI, Linux storage stack, both block and file-system (e.g., XFS, GPFS, Gluster, Ceph, Swift, NFS)
• Software engineering skills with efficient, maintainable and testable C/C /Python/Go
• Experience deploying storage for shared-nothing applications
• Experience leading cross functional teams engaged in storage system design and deployment

Responsibilities:

• Responsible in designing and developing strategy for storage system design and consumption
• Additional responsibilities include influencing the open-source community in white-box storage developments and software defined storage
• Utilize communication skills in interacting with peer groups & drive technical presentation.
• Project lead initial storage implementations, and proof-of-concepts and pilots
• Adapt to the ever-evolving industry; learn and scrutinize new technologies, and envision its possible application towards the mission
• Participate in a 12x7 rotation for second-tier escalations.