Lambda

Senior Storage Engineer

Lambda

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: San FranciscoCaliforniaWashingtonUnited States

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Salary

💰 $296,000 - $445,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
  • Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
  • Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions.
  • Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance.
  • Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.

Requirements

  • 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
  • A strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems:
  • Familiarity with one or more storage solutions of the following vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
  • File, Block, and Object storage types
  • Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols.
  • NVMEoverFabricStorage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
  • Storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
  • Encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy strategies
  • Storage data-reduction, compression, and encryption
  • Backup and data protection
  • 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible).
Benefits
  • Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
  • Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
  • 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
  • Flexible paid time off plan that we all actually use
  • Generous cash & equity compensation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
performance validationcorrectness validationaccess-control managementstorage solutions designmulti-petabyte storagefile storageblock storageobject storageInfrastructure as Codedata protection
Soft Skills
technical communicationmentoringoperational ownershipsubject matter expertise