Director Engineering – Storage
Weekday (YC W21)
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: Remote • 🇮🇳 India
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💰 ₹9,000,000 - ₹18,000,000 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Distributed SystemsFlash
About the role
- Lead and scale multi-disciplinary engineering teams spanning software development, firmware, systems engineering, and quality engineering within the Flash Array organization.
- Define and execute the engineering roadmap aligned with product, business, and customer requirements.
- Drive engineering best practices across architecture, coding standards, testing, automation, and release management.
- Partner closely with Product Management, Architecture, and Customer Support to deliver world-class storage products.
- Oversee end-to-end development of enterprise-grade storage systems, including controller software, data services, performance optimization, and system reliability.
- Ensure high availability, resiliency, and performance across flash-based storage platforms.
- Provide technical guidance on complex design decisions, scalability challenges, and system-level trade-offs.
- Own the quality engineering strategy, ensuring robust test frameworks, automation, and continuous integration pipelines.
- Drive a culture of built-in quality, focusing on defect prevention, early testing, and reliability engineering.
- Ensure production readiness, performance validation, and compliance with enterprise customer expectations.
- Build, mentor, and develop senior engineering leaders, managers, and technical experts.
- Foster a culture of innovation, accountability, ownership, and engineering excellence.
- Lead performance management, succession planning, and long-term capability building.
Requirements
- 18–30 years of overall experience
- Mandatory experience in the storage domain, specifically enterprise storage systems
- Proven leadership in storage product development and/or quality engineering
- Strong understanding of storage architectures, file/block storage, data services, performance, and reliability engineering
- Experience delivering complex, highly available, enterprise-grade infrastructure products.
- Hands-on or leadership experience in Flash / NAND / Flash-based product development.
- Exposure to modern storage technologies, automation frameworks, and large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience leading globally distributed engineering teams.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
software developmentfirmwaresystems engineeringquality engineeringstorage architecturesfile storageblock storagedata servicesperformance optimizationreliability engineering
Soft skills
leadershipmentoringinnovationaccountabilityownershipengineering excellenceperformance managementsuccession planningcapability buildingcollaboration