Hands-on experience building storage products in the cloud is the single most important requirement: the candidate must have designed, built, or operated cloud storage services (not just used or integrated them), in senior engineering, architecture, or technical leadership roles at hyperscalers, cloud providers, storage vendors, or other advanced technology companies
Deep understanding of storage systems internals: block, file, and object storage architectures, distributed storage, replication and erasure coding, consistency and durability models, and the read/write data path
Hands-on familiarity with technologies and interfaces such as NVMe/NVMe-oF, iSCSI, POSIX and parallel file systems (e.g., Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS), Ceph, S3-compatible object storage, and RDMA-based data paths
Ability to reason quantitatively about IOPS, throughput, latency (including tail latency), and cost per usable TB, and to read and interpret benchmarks
Strong technical expertise in at least two of the following areas
Block storage and virtualization (volumes, snapshots, replication, NVMe-oF)
File and parallel file systems for HPC/AI (Lustre, GPFS, BeeGFS, NFS)
Distributed storage internals (replication, erasure coding, consistency, repair)
Storage performance engineering and benchmarking
Object storage at scale (S3-compatible APIs, metadata, multipart, lifecycle)
Proven track record of delivering complex technical initiatives requiring coordination across multiple teams or stakeholders
Technical leadership experience is a strong plus
Product management experience is not required, but a strong willingness to learn and grow into the role is essential
Experience with storage for AI/ML training pipelines and large-scale HPC (checkpointing, data loading at scale, high-throughput sequential and random access patterns)
Experience creating technical documentation, guides, tutorials, or reference architectures for storage products
Ideal Candidate
The ideal candidate is a technically strong professional with a background in cloud or cloud storage products at hyperscalers (AWS, GCP, Azure), other public cloud providers, storage vendors, their partners, or highly digitalized enterprises
The candidate may come from a background in storage engineering, distributed systems, architecture, SRE, or technical leadership, with hands-on experience building cloud storage services, distributed storage systems, or high-performance storage for ML and HPC. Experience in technical product or platform ownership or technical leadership is highly valued, even if the candidate has not held a formal manager title
Relevant experience in ML and HPC environments is strongly desirable given the storage demands of these workloads, though the candidate is expected to adapt quickly and learn new domains