Experience with AI/HPC storage solutions, such as Parallel Filesystems or petabyte+ scale Object Storage
Familiarity with networking technologies like RDMA and Infiniband
Familiarity with modern storage technologies (e.g GPU Direct Storage, F2FS, SPDK etc)
Prior experience with Nvidia SuperNIC DPUs for storage optimization
Prior experience in Storage Virtualization & Orchestration, volume placement strategies and distributed metadata management
Research publications or open-source contributions to storage-related projects
Hands-on proficiency in modern software development best practices, and practical experience in languages like Go, Java, C/C++, or Rust
Extensive experience developing multi-tenant, cloud scale distributed storage infrastructure software and systems
Experience contributing to at least one or more of the following storage products: File (e.g., NFS, SMB, Lustre), Object, or Block Storage (e.g., NVMe, iSCSI)
A strong background in high performance filesystem based products, VFS and linux filesystems (e.g., ext4, XFS, ZFS)
Proficiency working with Linux and its storage subsystems
Knowledge of monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana), log analysis, distributed tracing and debugging