Engineering Manager, Datacenter Storage Engineering (AI)

TL;DR

Engineering Manager, Datacenter Storage Engineering (AI): Leading the team responsible for distributed storage infrastructure across all regions with an accent on high-performance SAN and NFS systems for GPU-centric compute. Focus on designing and operating large-scale storage architectures, including VAST Data and parallel filesystems like Lustre, to support AI training and inference workloads.

Location: Must be based in the USA

Salary: $150,000 - $240,000 USD

Company

hirify.global is a rapidly growing, remote-first company providing cloud infrastructure for full-stack AI applications, enabling developers to build and scale custom AI systems.

What you will do

• Define and operate global storage platforms supporting training, inference, and dataset access at scale.
• Manage and grow a team of storage and systems engineers, setting technical direction and operational standards.
• Design and operate large-scale SAN and NFS deployments for GPU clusters.
• Lead deployments of VAST Data and parallel filesystems like Lustre.
• Drive performance optimization across the stack, from NAND/NVMe media to client access patterns.
• Partner with Networking, GPU Platform, and SRE teams to ensure storage meets workload requirements.

Requirements

• Must be based in the USA
• 3+ years of experience managing storage, systems, or infrastructure engineering teams in production.
• 8+ years of experience designing and operating large-scale storage systems at multi-petabyte scale.
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating VAST Data in production.
• Experience with Lustre or comparable HPC parallel filesystems.
• Deep knowledge of Linux internals, storage controllers, and high-performance data paths like NFS over RDMA.
• Successful completion of a background check.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting AI training pipelines and large-scale model checkpointing.
• Familiarity with RDMA fabrics and multi-tenant isolation.
• Background in hyperscale, HPC, or AI-focused infrastructure.

Culture & Benefits

• Meaningful equity in a fast-growing company.
• Generous medical, dental, and vision plans.
• Flexible PTO policy.
• Remote-first work environment with collaborative team culture.
• Opportunity to work on cutting-edge AI infrastructure.