Lambda Senior Storage Engineer at Lambda designs and operates large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments supporting AI workloads. The role focuses on validation design, standardization, security, and technical leadership.
Responsibilities
Validation Design: Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
Standardization: Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
Security & Access: Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions.
Strategic Partnerships: Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance.
Leadership: Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.
8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
A strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems:
Familiarity with one or more storage solutions of the following vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
File, Block, and Object storage types
Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols.
NVME over Fabric Storage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
Storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
Qualification
8+ years of experience designingKnowledge of FileExperience with KubernetesExperience deployingSalary Range InformationFounded in 2012
Required
8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
Strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems
Familiarity with storage solutions from Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
Knowledge of File, Block, and Object storage types
Experience with Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols
Experience with NVME over Fabric Storage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
Understanding of storage performance via RDMA
Preferred
Experience with Kubernetes, including CSI and COSI drivers and CNI’s
Deep understanding of storage performance
Strong understanding of public cloud features (e.g., SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, identity management)
Experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Software Defined Storage
Have implemented either open-source or commercial storage monitoring solutions
Salary Range Information
The annual salary range for this position has been set based on market data and other factors. However, a salary higher or lower than this range may be appropriate for a candidate whose qualifications differ meaningfully from those listed in the job description.
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