# Manager, HPC Storage Engineer

**Company:** [Runpod](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/runpod)
**Location:** Remote
**Role:** Engineering Management
**Salary:** $150k – $240k/yr
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** Storage Architecture, Vast Data, Lustre, Nfs, San, Rdma, Gpu Direct Storage, Linux Internals, Hpc Filesystems, Nvme, Nand, Distributed Storage
**Posted:** 2026-01-28

> Lead and grow the storage engineering team responsible for Runpod’s global distributed storage infrastructure optimized for large-scale AI and HPC workloads. Requires 8+ years large-scale storage experience plus 3+ years of people management, deep expertise with VAST Data, Lustre, NFS/RDMA, and Linux systems.

## Job Description

## Responsibilities
- Own Distributed Storage Architecture: Define, evolve, and operate Runpod’s global storage platforms, supporting training, inference, checkpointing, and dataset access at scale.
- Build the Storage Engineering Team: Manage and grow a team of storage and systems engineers. Set clear ownership, technical direction, and operational standards across regions.
- High-Performance Shared Filesystems: Design and operate large-scale SAN and NFS deployments, including performance-sensitive shared storage for GPU clusters.
- Advanced Filesystems & Platforms: Lead deployments and operations of VAST Data and experience with Lustre or similar parallel filesystems used in HPC and AI environments.
- End-to-End Performance Ownership: Drive performance optimization from NAND and NVMe media through controllers, networking, and client access patterns.
- Next-Generation Storage Technologies: Evaluate and deploy cutting-edge capabilities such as NFS over RDMA, GPU Direct Storage (GDS), and low-latency data paths for accelerated workloads.
- Reliability & Scale: Establish best practices for replication, data tiering, data protection, failure recovery, capacity planning, and lifecycle management.
- Automation & Observability: Build automation for provisioning, expansion, upgrades, and monitoring. Ensure deep observability into throughput, latency, and error characteristics.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Datacenter Networking, GPU Platform, SRE, and Product teams to ensure storage systems meet evolving workload and customer needs.
- Vendor & Partner Management: Own technical relationships with storage vendors, hardware partners, and colocation providers; drive roadmap alignment and issue resolution.

## Requirements
- 3+ years managing storage, systems, or infrastructure engineering teams in production environments.
- 8+ years designing and operating large-scale storage systems, including SAN and NFS architectures at multi-petabyte scale.
- Hands-on experience deploying, operating, or deeply integrating VAST Data in production environments.
- Experience with Lustre or comparable HPC filesystems (e.g., GPFS, BeeGFS) supporting high-concurrency workloads.
- Deep understanding of NAND, NVMe, PCIe, storage controllers, and performance characteristics across the stack.
- Proven experience with NFS over RDMA, RDMA-capable transports, or similar technologies. Familiarity with GPU Direct Storage strongly preferred.
- Strong Linux internals knowledge, including filesystems, I/O scheduling, memory management, and tuning for performance workloads.
- Experience running 24/7 storage platforms with strong incident response, change management, and post-mortem discipline.
- Ability to clearly communicate complex technical tradeoffs and lead teams through high-stakes infrastructure decisions.

## Preferred Qualifications
- Experience supporting AI training pipelines, large-scale model checkpointing, and dataset streaming workloads.
- Familiarity with RDMA fabrics and close collaboration with datacenter networking teams.
- Experience designing storage systems for multi-tenant isolation and secure data access.
- Background in hyperscale, HPC, or AI-focused infrastructure environments.
- Experience building internal storage platforms or abstractions consumed by product teams.

## Compensation & Benefits
- Competitive base pay ranges from $150,000 - $240,000 USD (may be narrowed based on experience, qualifications, and location).
- Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company (stock options for everyone).
- Generous medical, dental & vision plans.
- Flexible PTO.
- Remote-first work with collaborative team.

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