Senior Member of Technical Staff

Seattle (hybrid)Full-time$200,000–$200,0002026-10-01 → 2026-10-08

Core

Design and build a distributed storage operating system (file system, block layer, erasure coding) in C and Rust for enterprise workloads like AI, HPC, and medical imaging.

Role type

Senior IC systems software engineer (distributed storage)

Builds

Distributed storage engine, fault-tolerant block layer, transactional file system, and data protection services

Domain

Cloud storage, distributed systems, systems programming

Required skills

C, C++, Rust, distributed systems, concurrency, failure recovery, systems debugging, AI coding tools

Preferred skills

Distributed file systems (NFS, SMB, S3), storage platforms (NetApp, Ceph, Lustre), indexing/query internals, open source contributions

Technologies

C, Rust, C++, Linux, distributed storage protocols (via careerplan.io/jobs/92fe1c10-7bc1-4388-a039-df1ce54d7ec3-senior-member-of-technical-staff-at-qumulo)

Responsibilities

Design and build file system and block layer components, debug protocol and network issues, prototype new features, leverage AI coding tools for complex tasks, take designs from thesis to shipped code

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

About Qumulo

Software DevelopmentSeries D685Seattle, WA, USFounded 2012

Modern enterprises have to manage exponentially-growing exabyte-scale data stores comprised mostly of unstructured data. Someone (often IT) has the difficult job of staying on top of managing these data stores, which becomes more difficult to do as enterprise datasets expand from the data center to the edge and cloud. And while scale and complexity are rising, budgets and staff are not. Existing solutions suffer from two crucial shortcomings: Complexity and platform lock-in. Legacy solutions are excruciatingly complex to deploy and manage. And nearly every solution restricts users to running i