Storage Engineer

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or San Jose office, presence required 4 days per week

Salary: $267,000–$356,000 per year

Company

Lambda is a leading AI cloud infrastructure startup focused on delivering superintelligence compute power to a wide range of customers, including AI researchers and enterprises.

What you will do

• Own reliability, performance, and capacity health of production storage fleet across all data centers.
• Build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, and alerting for storage systems.
• Investigate and resolve storage-related incidents using telemetry and performance profiling.
• Automate ticketing, escalation, and incident-response workflows to reduce manual triage.
• Design and maintain self-healing automation for common failure modes and capacity rebalancing.
• Implement CI/CD pipelines and collaborate with engineering teams to automate deployment and configuration.
• Work with hardware and networking teams to diagnose low-level I/O and network issues.
• Participate in on-call rotation focusing on reducing mean time to recovery and improving automation.

Requirements

• Must be located in or near San Francisco or San Jose with ability to work onsite 4 days per week.
• 5+ years experience operating Linux systems in production or HPC environments with hands-on storage experience at scale.
• Experience with software-defined storage platforms and their APIs.
• Strong incident-response skills owning production storage incidents end to end.
• Experience with monitoring/logging platforms like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog, and building dashboards and alerts.
• Experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, containerization, and Infrastructure as Code tools like Ansible and Terraform.

Nice to have

• Experience with advanced software-defined storage solutions such as VAST or Weka.
• Enterprise storage expertise with NetApp, Dell PowerScale, GPFS, or Lustre.
• Experience writing or operating Kubernetes CSI drivers.
• Experience with SR-IOV, virtualization, GPUDirect Storage, RDMA, InfiniBand, or RoCE networking.
• Familiarity with NIC-level diagnostics and fleet-wide operations tooling.
• Contributions to open-source storage projects.

Culture & Benefits

• Generous cash and equity compensation.
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents.
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles.
• 401k plan with 2% company match for US employees.
• Flexible paid time off plan actively used by the team.