
Staff Storage Systems Architect
Lambda
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: San Jose • California • United States
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Salary
💰 $349,000 - $523,000 per year
Job Level
Tech Stack
About the role
- Architect, design, and implement distributed storage solutions optimized for AI workloads.
- Drive the development of storage system standards and best practices to ensure consistency and reliability across infrastructure.
- Evaluate and benchmark storage technologies to meet demanding AI performance requirements.
- Collaborate with engineering teams to integrate storage solutions with cloud product offerings.
- Define and maintain storage capacity plans, performance metrics, and scalability roadmaps.
- Drive operational excellence, ensuring high availability, disaster recovery, and data integrity.
- Provide mentorship and technical leadership to storage and infrastructure engineers.
Requirements
- Proven experience (7+ years) designing and implementing distributed storage systems.
- Deep expertise with distributed storage technologies (e.g., Ceph, Lustre, or similar).
- In-depth knowledge of underlying hardware systems supporting storage deployments.
- Strong understanding of storage architectures, data replication, redundancy strategies, and performance optimization techniques.
- Experience working with high-performance and high-availability storage solutions.
- Familiarity with object, block, and file storage protocols.
- Ability to identify, analyze, and resolve complex technical issues.
- Excellent communication skills, capable of clearly articulating technical concepts to diverse stakeholders.
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
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
distributed storage solutionsstorage system standardsstorage technologiesstorage capacity plansperformance metricsscalability roadmapsdata integritydata replicationredundancy strategiesperformance optimization
Soft Skills
mentorshiptechnical leadershipcommunication