Senior Staff Software Engineer, Storage
Core
Define and drive the long-term technical strategy for Crusoe's storage engine, bridging high-performance NVMe hardware and globally distributed, S3-competitive object stores.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Storage Architecture)
Builds
Bespoke storage services and V2 storage re-architecture for AI-scale infrastructure
Domain
Cloud Storage, Distributed Systems, AI Infrastructure
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
System programming (C, C++, Go, Rust), Storage protocols (NFS, SMB, iSCSI, NVMe/TCP), Open source stewardship, Performance engineering, Distributed state management, SDLC mastery
Preferred skills
Public cloud expertise (AWS, GCP, Azure, OCI), High-throughput I/O (DAOS, SPDK), Networking (RDMA, RoCEv2), Distributed databases (Cassandra, Kafka), Theoretical depth (CAP, Paxos/RAFT)
Technologies
C, C++, Go, Rust, NVMe, CXL, Ceph, GlusterFS, Lustre, Spectrum Scale, OpenEBS, PyTorch, Tensorflow, JAX, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Cassandra
Responsibilities
Define multi-year technical roadmap for storage strategy, Architect and implement solutions for storage protocols, Lead tiger teams to solve bottlenecks in kernel-level IO and distributed clusters, Serve as final arbiter for critical architecture decisions, Lead complex design reviews intersecting storage, networking, and virtualization, Champion initiatives across the engineering organization
Seniority
Senior Staff, strategic architecture & mentorship
