Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
5+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering
Deep, hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage or EMC — not limited to volume creation/provisioning, but a working understanding of how the systems are architected and operated
Deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms
Proficiency in a programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or C
Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF
Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
Experience with building and operating managed services at scale such as object, file and block storage (AWS, GCP, Azure)
Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Vast, Lightbits)
Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack
Experience with hybrid storage models across on-prem and cloud environments