Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Storage

Staff Site Reliability Engineer – Storage

Requirements

• 8+ years of professional experience in SRE, systems, or storage engineering.
• Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS) and deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms.
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Python, Go, Java, or C.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling.
• Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF.
• Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker).
• Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Must be able to pass a background check.

Responsibilities

• Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain Crusoe’s distributed cloud storage infrastructure, which includes block, file, and object storage systems.
• Drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms.
• Collaborate closely with storage engineers to implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes that support large-scale AI compute clusters.
• Support user-facing storage services with a focus on availability, performance tuning, and adherence to error budgets.
• Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using deep telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
• Partner with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems.
• Contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends tailored for AI-first cloud environments.

Preferred Qualifications

No preferred qualifications provided.