Senior Distributed Storage Engineer

Location: On-site in San Francisco or New York, United States

Salary: $250,000–$300,000 per year

Company

hirify.global is building an AI infrastructure layer and a serverless platform for high-performance workloads.

What you will do

• Design, build, and maintain the distributed object storage system powering container images, volumes, and checkpoints.
• Develop caching, preloading, and peer-to-peer layers across local NVMe, worker fleets, and datacenters.
• Build replication pipelines across multiple cloud object storage providers and a CDN.
• Automate garbage collection, data migration, and durability workflows across hundreds of petabytes of data.
• Optimize high-throughput read and write paths while reducing object-store latency and network ingress.
• Participate in the on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
• Experience building and operating high-performance distributed storage or caching systems at large scale.
• Deep knowledge of cloud object storage, CDNs, consistency, throughput, and cost characteristics.
• Strong understanding of Linux kernel foundations, file systems, page cache, and containers.
• Experience with replication, content addressing, consistency models, multi-region or multi-cloud systems, and petabyte-scale data engineering.
• Prior experience with Rust and willingness to join the on-call rotation.

Nice to have

• Experience operating petabyte-scale datasets, large-scale garbage collection, or data migration systems.
• Experience deploying colocated storage clusters in datacenters.

Culture & Benefits

• On-site engineering work in San Francisco or New York.
• Work on infrastructure supporting hundreds of petabytes of data and high-throughput customer workloads.
• Collaboration with engineers, researchers, open-source creators, and experienced technical leaders.