Senior Ceph Storage Engineer – SRE

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in California, +10 more states.

📋 Description

• Design and architect extensive production Ceph clusters, encompassing CRUSH topology, failure-domain modeling, replication and erasure-coding strategies, selection of storage hardware, and data placement architecture.

• Lead capacity planning, performance modeling, and hardware qualification efforts across a fleet of over 80 production clusters, which include more than 20,000 OSDs and 300 PB of raw storage.

• Take ownership of significant platform upgrades and migration projects, including Ceph releases, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale modernization of storage systems.

• Drive the resolution of intricate cross-functional production incidents involving storage, networking, virtualization, and computing systems.

• Establish automation, operational standards, and reliability practices to enhance scalability, minimize toil, and boost engineering efficiency.

• Act as a principal technical leader for GoDaddy’s globally distributed Ceph platform.

• Mentor engineers in advanced Ceph design and operational practices.

• Influence the architectural direction for storage infrastructure over multiple quarters.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in designing, operating, and scaling distributed storage platforms.

• In-depth hands-on experience with production Ceph environments.

• Expert-level knowledge of Ceph, including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD architecture, MON/MGR/MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding.

• Proficient in designing storage architectures, capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale.

• Experience leading significant storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization initiatives from planning through to production execution.

• Strong skills in automation and software engineering, particularly using Python and/or Go.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration frameworks, such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible.

• Advanced knowledge of Ceph technologies, including RGW Multisite, RBD Mirroring, CephFS at scale, BlueStore tuning, and erasure-coding optimization.

• Experience with OpenStack storage architecture, including Cinder, Swift, Manila, Nova, and Neutron integrations with Ceph.

• Expertise in Kubernetes storage, covering CSI drivers, stateful workloads, StorageClasses, and Rook-based Ceph deployments.

• Experience in evaluating and integrating large-scale storage technologies such as NetApp, Isilon, Pure, VAST, Weka, DDN, and AI/HPC storage platforms.

• Contributions to the Ceph community through upstream development, code reviews, bug fixes, architecture discussions, or open-source storage initiatives.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive pay

• Generous time off

• Parental and wellness leave

• Healthcare

• Retirement savings program

• Medical, dental, and vision insurance

• 401(k) retirement plan

• Paid sick time

• Paid flexible time off

• Paid parental leave

• Life insurance

• Short- and long-term disability

• AD&D insurance

• Mental health or EAP programs

• Remote or hybrid work options

• Paid holidays

• Paid Wellness days

• Tuition assistance

• Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits

• Dependent daycare and backup care benefits

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Financial education and advice

• Corporate bonus and/or equity awards may be available