Senior Engineer, Ceph

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Canada.

📋 Description

• Design, construct, and manage a highly scalable, efficient, and resilient global storage layer.

• Create and uphold automation for logging, monitoring, and maintaining the storage layer.

• Employ technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Aerospike, Kafka, and others to optimize and enhance existing systems.

• Engage in the design of intricate security systems.

• Provide mentorship to junior team members.

• Take ownership of significant projects and components as a senior contributor.

• Advocate for improvements in processes and procedures for the team and the division.

• Shape team direction while promoting accountability, trust, and a focus on objectives.

• Embody and promote the values of Index Exchange both internally and externally.

⛳️ Requirements

• Capability to effectively communicate information and ideas across various teams.

• Skill in prioritizing tasks amid competing scopes and timelines.

• Strong background in Operations.

• Experience in resolving complex issues and developing solutions, including CI/CD, real-time monitoring, and handling production challenges.

• Proficient in building, maintaining, and troubleshooting open-source distributed storage solutions like Ceph and storage orchestrators such as Rook in a highly automated and scalable environment.

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet, or Terraform.

• Knowledge of storage-level replication technologies.

• Extensive experience in capacity planning, disaster recovery, and monitoring.

• Methodical, scalable, and rigorous approach to globally distributed systems.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.

• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days along with flexible work schedules.

• Competitive retirement matching plans.

• Equity packages.

• Generous parental leave available for birthing, non-birthing, and adoptive parents.

• Annual well-being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities.

• Commuter benefits and discounts, where available.

• Employee assistance program.

• Mental health first aid program that offers immediate support and reassurance.

• One day of volunteer time off per year and a donation-matching program.

• Bi-weekly town halls and regular community-led team events.

• Multiple resources and programming to promote continuous learning.

• A workplace that fosters a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.