Senior Production Engineer, Storage

The role

This role ensures the availability, performance, and scalability of cloud storage products and services. You will build automation and self-healing tools for distributed cloud storage infrastructure including block, file, and object storage systems.

What you will do

• Build automation and self-healing tools to monitor and maintain distributed cloud storage infrastructure.
• Drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and failover mechanisms.
• Implement and maintain high-performance NVMe- and SSD-backed volumes.
• Support user-facing storage services with a focus on availability, performance tuning, and error budgets.
• Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using telemetry, logs, and performance profiling.
• Partner with hardware and kernel teams to diagnose low-level I/O issues and optimize I/O paths, cache policies, and file systems.
• Contribute to the architecture of fault-tolerant, scalable storage backends.

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
• 5+ years of professional experience in Storage SRE, systems, or storage engineering
• Deep, hands-on experience with enterprise storage platforms such as Pure Storage or EMC
• Deep understanding of object, block, and file storage paradigms
• Proficiency in a programming language such as Go, Python, Java, or C
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code and deployment tooling such as Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals with a focus on I/O subsystems, memory management, and storage scheduling
• Familiarity with storage protocols like NFS, SMB, iSCSI, or NVMe-oF
• Strong experience working with containerized workloads and orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes, Docker)
• Excellent incident response, troubleshooting, and documentation practices
• Experience with building and operating managed services at scale such as object, file and block storage (AWS, GCP, Azure)

Nice to have

• Hands-on experience with distributed storage systems (e.g., Ceph, GlusterFS, OpenEBS, Vast, Lightbits)
• Contributions to open-source storage projects or the Linux storage stack
• Experience with hybrid storage models across on-prem and cloud environments

Benefits

• Industry competitive pay
• Restricted Stock Units
• Health insurance package options that include HDHP and PPO, vision, and dental for you and your dependents
• Employer contributions to HSA accounts
• Paid Parental Leave
• Paid life insurance, short-term and long-term disability
• Teladoc
• 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary
• Generous paid time off and holiday schedule
• Cell phone reimbursement
• Tuition reimbursement
• Subscription to the Calm app

About the company

Crusoe is a vertically integrated AI infrastructure company that owns and operates each layer of the stack to power AI workloads. They use an energy-first approach to build AI infrastructure.