You should meet one or more of the following requirements
You've built and operated distributed storage systems and have a strong grasp of first-principles
You have strong systems engineering experience in one or more of: filesystems, block devices, kernel I/O paths, SPDK, io_uring, vhost-user-blk, ublk or virtualization
You have a deep understanding of the algorithms and techniques behind building fast, performant and reliable storage systems
You have experience building large distributed systems where consistency and availability was critical
You have a strong background in performance engineering at the I/O layer on Linux
You're comfortable owning a problem alone at a small company
You have a solid intuition about how long your solutions will last. All systems age. In startups, we can hope for 2-3 orders of magnitude, or 12-18 months
You have the grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed
You communicate well enough to get your point across, your solution implemented, and documented for when you're not around
If your background is in adjacent infrastructure (hypervisor I/O, kernel development, distributed systems, persistent memory) and you want to apply that depth to storage, we want to hear from you
We value and love to work with diverse persons from all backgrounds
Things to know
For better or worse, we're a startup; our team dynamics are different from companies of different sizes and stages
We're distributed ALL across the globe, and that's only going to be more and more distributed. As a result, stuff is ALWAYS happening
We do NOT expect you to work all the time, but you'll have to be diligent about your boundaries because the end of your day may overlap with the start of someone else's
We're a small team, with high ownership, who are not only passionate about what we do, but seek to be exceptional as well. At the time of writing we're 21, serving hundreds of thousands of users. There's a lot of stuff going on, and a lot of ambiguity
We want you to own it. We believe that ownership is a key to growth, and part of that growth is not only being able to make the choices, but owning the success, or failure, that comes with those choices