Experience: 10+ years in storage systems engineering, with 5+ years in a technical lead or Staff+ IC role. Proven track record designing and operating multi-petabyte storage infrastructure in production data center or cloud environments. Background in HPC, AI/ML infrastructure, or large-scale cloud storage
Systems-Level Programming: Strong proficiency in C, C++, Rust, or Go. Ability to write high-performance, concurrent, production-grade systems code. Familiarity with DPDK/SPDK and kernel-bypass data paths is a plus; kernel-level storage driver or storage daemon experience is even better
Storage Protocol & API Expertise: Deep hands-on experience with two or more protocols, object (S3), block (iSCSI, NVMe-oF), or file (NFS, SMB, Lustre, DAOS), including implementing or maintaining protocol servers/clients in production, not just consuming them
Storage Performance Optimization: Experience profiling and tuning for throughput, latency, and IOPS under real workloads using tools like fio, elbencho
Modern Storage Technologies: Working knowledge of NVMe, NVMe-oF, RDMA (RoCE or InfiniBand), and DPUs (e.g., NVIDIA BlueField)
Operational Acumen: Comfortable in physical data center environments, rack-scale infrastructure, storage hardware, failure domains. Experience designing for reliability, writing runbooks, and driving incident response. Familiar with storage observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, log aggregation, tracing)
Experience with NVIDIA BlueField DPUs or SuperNICs for accelerated storage data paths, including GPUDirect Storage implementation
Deep production experience with enterprise or HPC storage platforms: Vast Data, Weka, NetApp, or Lustre
Experience deploying and operating Ceph like service at scale (100PB+) in an HPC or AI infrastructure environment
Familiarity with emerging storage technologies such as CXL memory pooling, computational storage, or ZNS (Zoned Namespace) SSDs
Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source storage projects (e.g., Ceph, DAOS, Lustre, MinIO)
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