Senior Storage Engineer (AI)

Location: Fully remote, with the role listed in Santa Clara, United States

Company

hirify.global is building a full-stack AI cloud spanning data centers, hardware, and a cloud platform for AI teams, powered by renewable energy.

What you will do

• Design, deploy, and operate large-scale production Ceph clusters handling petabyte- to hundreds-of-petabytes of customer data.
• Set the technical direction for storage architecture, operational standards, capacity planning, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Launch a managed Object Storage product with access keys, bucket management, and service-level objectives.
• Manage CephFS, RBD, and RADOS Gateway interfaces and diagnose complex distributed-storage performance issues.
• Improve observability, automation, and operational tooling while leading production operations and incident response.
• Collaborate with compute and networking teams on GPU cluster integration and mentor engineers through reviews and design work.

Requirements

• Extensive experience deploying, operating, troubleshooting, and optimizing Ceph.
• Experience operating Ceph at multi-petabyte production scale.
• Technical leadership experience managing storage infrastructure end to end.
• Advanced Linux systems, DevOps, bare-metal, networking, and distributed-systems debugging skills.
• Experience with infrastructure automation and mission-critical production operations.
• Strong mentoring, collaboration, and cross-team communication skills.

Nice to have

• Production experience with RADOS Gateway, CephFS, or cloud-provider storage operations.
• Ansible proficiency.
• Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar monitoring tools.
• Experience with 10–100 PB storage systems and GPU/AI workload storage patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent, fully remote work.
• Cash and equity compensation with local benefits.
• Work alongside engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
• Join a company building its infrastructure and products at an early stage.