Technical Lead (Distributed Storage)

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

Salary: $270,000–$330,000 per year

Company

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

What you will do

• Lead a team of 3–8 engineers while remaining hands-on across the storage stack.
• Design, build, and maintain the distributed object storage system supporting container images, volumes, and checkpoints.
• Set technical direction for storage primitives used by filesystem, training, and sandbox teams.
• Own the roadmap for petabyte-scale garbage collection, active-active replication, rate limiting, colocated GPU storage, and tiered writes.
• Guide observability, automation, capacity planning, and on-call practices for systems operating across multiple datacenters and cloud providers.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience writing high-quality production code.
• 3+ years of direct people management experience.
• Experience building and operating high-performance distributed storage or caching systems at large scale.
• Strong knowledge of object storage such as S3, CDNs, Linux kernel foundations, filesystems, page cache, and containers.
• Experience with replication, content addressing, consistency models, petabyte-scale datasets, data migration, cost planning, and capacity planning.
• Willingness to participate in the on-call rotation and respond to production incidents.

Nice to have

• Experience with data engineering at petabyte scale.
• Prior experience with Rust.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on infrastructure supporting high-throughput AI workloads.
• Collaborate with engineers who have created open-source projects, conducted academic research, and led engineering and product organizations.
• Operate systems involving hundreds of petabytes of data, multiple cloud object stores, CDNs, local NVMe caches, and peer-to-peer datacenter sharing.