Architect – Object Storage & Database Systems

Required

• 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, database engineering, storage engineering, or distributed systems experience, including experience at a Principal, Staff, Architect, or similar senior technical level.
• Deep hands-on experience with AWS S3, S3-compatible object storage, or large-scale object storage platforms, with a strong understanding of how object storage works internally.
• Expert-level knowledge of database architecture and internals, including relational, NoSQL, and distributed databases, as well as transactions, indexing, replication, sharding, partitioning, locking, caching, and consistency models.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including replication, consensus, fault tolerance, high availability, distributed coordination, eventual consistency, and strong consistency.
• Strong hands-on programming experience in languages such as C, C++, Go, Java, Python, or similar languages, with the ability to build working prototypes and production-quality solutions.
• Proven experience designing, troubleshooting, and improving highly scalable systems that process large amounts of data and operate in high-performance production environments.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, storage I/O, CPU, memory, caching, and system performance, with experience diagnosing complex problems across multiple layers of the technology stack.
• Excellent communication and technical leadership skills, with the ability to explain complex concepts, influence technical direction, collaborate across teams, mentor engineers, and bring forward new ideas backed by hands-on testing and technical evidence.
• Strong understanding of AI technologies and modern AI architecture, with hands-on experience evaluating how AI, LLMs, and automation can be applied to storage, database, and distributed systems.