Storage Systems Software Engineer

Title: Software Engineer, Storage Systems
Location: India or US (100% Remote)
Duration: Contract (potential extension)

Position Overview
The Infrastructure Systems Engineering team is in the midst of building our next-generation private cloud infrastructure as part of a greenfield initiative to in-house existing internal use cases on public cloud and support new initiatives. The historical deployment primarily supported our database test system: A system that runs over 7.25 million tests per month, writes petabytes to storage daily, and we re currently scaling multiple times in the next year alone.

As a Software Engineer, Storage Systems , you will be tasked with the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of systems at lower abstraction levels. You ll collaborate closely with a small, highly skilled team to drive a careful balance between battle-hardened best practices and creative innovation in an environment that embraces working from first principles, celebration of failure, and egoless technical discussion.

Role And Responsibilities

• Engage in the design and development of major infrastructure components and systems, focusing on fault tolerance and performance.
• Practice principles of distributed leadership - being comfortable shifting between leading, collaborating with, and following your peers on different projects
• Own your systems end-to-end from design to production.
• Work closely with other teams to ensure the successful integration and operation of our infrastructure systems.
• Do your part to foster an environment where people take chances because they aren t
• punished for mistakes and improve over time because they learn from not just their mistakes but those of others.
• Enable fact-driven decision-making by deferring to the data or code in question
• whenever possible.
• Drive continuous improvement in system reliability and usability.

Required Skills And Experience

• At least 5 years of experience developing and optimizing systems software.
• Deep expertise (can speak both to system level and implementation detail) in at least one of:
  • virtualization
  • storage
  • service modeling & REST API/SDK generation
  • scientific or high-performance computing
  • kernel development
• Natural curiosity or drive to learn about new or adjacent technologies.
• Experience designing, developing, and/or troubleshooting distributed systems.
• Comfort with at least one systems programming language (C/C++, golang) and one scripting language (python, bash).
• Comfort with shells on *nix family systems.
• B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a related field.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with low-level monitoring & profiling (e.g. pcm, perf, bpf).
• Experience with, or hobbyist interest in, distributed elastic AI / LLM CPU inference (e.g. OpenVino, llama.cpp)
• Familiarity with, or interest in, SingleStore or other distributed SQL databases.