Staff Software Engineer, Storage
$207,000–$303,000 year
On-siteNew York City, New York, United States or San Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
Design and implement a highly scalable multi-tenant control plane for CoreWeave's high-performance AI storage platform. Contribute to exabyte-scale object storage and distributed file system development, integrating dedicated clusters into diverse customer environments. Optimize storage performance using RDMA, GPU Direct Storage, RoCE, InfiniBand, and SPDK while improving reliability, durability, and observability. Collaborate with operations teams to monitor systems via telemetry and dashboards, ensuring seamless scaling and maximum throughput. Mentor engineers on best practices for building distributed, high-performance systems.
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 10+ years of experience working in storage systems engineering or infrastructure
- Strong hands-on experience with object storage or distributed filesystems in production environments
- Experience with one or more storage protocols (e.g. S3, NFS) and file systems such as Ceph, DAOS, or similar
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as Go, C++, or Rust
- Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines (e.g., ClickHouse, Prometheus, Grafana)
- Solid understanding of cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, and scalable system architecture
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments
- Clear communicator, able to work collaboratively across teams and share technical insights effectively
- Applicant must be (A) a U.S. person, defined as a (i) U.S. citizen or national, (ii) U.S. lawful permanent resident (green card holder), (iii) refugee under 8 U.S.C. § 1157, or (iv) asylee under 8 U.S.C. § 1158, (B) eligible to access the export controlled information without a required export authorization, or (C) eligible and reasonably likely to obtain the required export authorization from the applicable U.S. government agency
Desired Qualifications
- RDMA
- GPU Direct Storage
- RoCE
- InfiniBand
- SPDK
- distributed filesystems
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