Senior Engineer, Storage Services (AI Infrastructure)

Location: Houston, New York, San Francisco, or Seattle, United States

Base salary: $120,000–$190,000 USD per year, plus potential bonus, equity, and commission.

Company

Nscale provides GPU cloud infrastructure for AI startups and enterprise customers, focusing on high-performance, cost-effective, and environmentally responsible AI capacity.

What you will do

• Provide technical leadership across Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage services.
• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and high-performance storage architecture.
• Translate storage strategy into technical plans, priorities, and roadmap decisions.
• Partner with platform, infrastructure, and product teams to integrate storage services across the Nscale platform.
• Lead technical investigations, proofs of concept, design work, incident resolution, and root cause analysis.
• Mentor engineers and establish standards for reliability, observability, performance, supportability, and maintainability.

Requirements

• Senior technical experience in storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise in Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage architectures.
• Experience designing and operating large-scale, production-grade storage or infrastructure services.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems principles, including performance, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Experience influencing technical direction, mentoring engineers, and raising engineering standards without formal people-management authority.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Nice to have

• Experience in AI, HPC, data-intensive, or performance-sensitive environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, supportive, and innovative work environment.
• Flexible workplace with autonomy over the working day.
• Progression opportunities through leadership of critical cross-functional initiatives.
• Competitive compensation with performance reviews every 12 months.
• Potential medical, dental, vision, flexible paid time off, parental leave, and retirement benefits.