Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters, from hardware design, to driving network requirements to configuring, tuning and operating clusters and their clients
• Create efficient, generalizable APIs using systems/kernel features to provide safe, as-fast-as-possible live-migrations of stateful workload between hosts
• Design and build API and Orchestration services to tie storage primitives to higher level primitives using Go, gRPC, ScyllaDB and Temporal
• Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring it’s success
• Design build a suite of storage primitives that can be used by customer applications, internal services and enable higher level platform features such as streaming image pulls or movable build caches

Requirements

• Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems. You enjoy building fault tolerant, resilient, and scalable services
• Production experience with distributed block device systems (Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles
• Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS, bcachefs)
• 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 12-18mo
• The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it’s error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you’re not around
• A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup
• A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed
• A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond