Senior Software Engineer, Storage Infrastructure

Available Locations: Austin, Seattle, London, Lisbon, Washington DC, Toronto

About the Department: Emerging Technologies & Incubation (ETI) is where new and bold products are built and released within the company. Rather than being constrained by the structures which make the company a massively successful business, we are able to leverage them to deliver entirely new tools and products to our customers. The company's edge and network make it possible to solve problems at massive scale and efficiency which would be impossible for almost any other organization.

About the Team: ETI's Storage Infrastructure team is responsible for the core storage layer that underpins many of ETI's stateful services. Our scope ranges from managing the physical hardware to operating the distributed databases and storage systems built upon it. We run this infrastructure globally across the company's network, which presents unique and complex engineering puzzles. We navigate efficiently expanding storage capacity, optimizing rebuild operations, and coordinating operations across failure domains to uphold durability. While other service teams focus on product development, our mission is to ensure the underlying storage is reliable, performant, and scalable.

What You'll Do: In this role, you will help build and operate the next generation of globally distributed storage systems. You will own your code from inception to release, delivering solutions at all layers of the stack. On any given day, you might write a design document for a new provisioning system, model failure domain dependencies across edge locations, benchmark new storage hardware, build standardized observability and runbooks for distributed database clusters, or automate operational toil through purpose-built tooling and intelligent automation. You can expect to interact with a variety of languages and technologies including Rust, Go, Saltstack, and Terraform.

Examples of desirable skills, knowledge, and experience:

• Strong programming skills with languages like Rust, Go, or Python
• A solid understanding of distributed systems concepts such as consistency, consensus, data replication, fault tolerance, and partition tolerance
• Experience with distributed databases and storage systems
• Experience with infrastructure configuration tooling and infrastructure as code
• Familiarity with storage fundamentals: block devices, filesystems, SSD characteristics
• Experience building and maintaining high-throughput, low-latency systems
• Understanding of network fundamentals as they relate to distributed storage – bandwidth constraints, latency tradeoffs, cross‑datacenter replication

Additional Skills:

• Strong written and verbal communication skills and ability to explain technical decisions clearly
• Comfortable operating in fast‑paced environments with tight deadlines and evolving priorities

Equity: This role is eligible to participate in the company's equity plan.

Benefits: The company offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.

• Health & Welfare Benefits: Medical/Rx Insurance, Dental Insurance, Vision Insurance, Flexible Spending Accounts, Commuter Spending Accounts, Fertility & Family Forming Benefits, On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program, Global Travel Medical Insurance
• Financial Benefits: Short and Long Term Disability Insurance, Life & Accident Insurance, 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan, Employee Stock Participation Plan
• Time Off: Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave, Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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