Senior Engineering Manager (Storage)

Location: San Francisco, CA, US; on-site

Salary: $237,600–$285,000 per year, plus Restricted Stock Units

Company

hirify.global builds vertically integrated, climate-aligned AI infrastructure and a high-performance cloud for demanding AI workloads.

What you will do

• Lead and grow a software engineering team responsible for operating petabyte-scale infrastructure and building next-generation cloud storage.
• Set team goals, manage performance, develop engineers, and drive recruiting and hiring.
• Translate product requirements into architecture, execution plans, estimates, and delivery across parallel workstreams.
• Lead architecture and design reviews, maintain technical quality, and participate in substantive code reviews.
• Drive incident response for storage systems and develop durable fixes for business-critical issues.
• Collaborate with Compute, SDN, SRE, CCX, hardware vendors, and enterprise customers on platform integration and performance.

Requirements

• 4+ years of engineering management experience, including developing engineers, managing performance, and delivering cross-functional projects.
• Experience leading teams of 6+ engineers across multiple levels and a prior background as a software engineer, tech lead, or architect.
• 4+ years of hands-on experience with distributed storage systems such as Ceph, GlusterFS, or MinIO.
• Experience with production block, file, and object storage, performance optimization, and capacity planning at scale.
• Deep knowledge of NFS over RDMA, NVMe-oF, S3, and RoCE/InfiniBand fabrics, plus NVMe, RDMA, DPUs, and kernel-level I/O concepts.
• Strong programming background in C/C++, Go, Java, or Rust sufficient for code reviews and architecture discussions.

Nice to have

• Experience designing and operating distributed storage at a cloud service provider, neo-cloud, HPC integrator, or AI infrastructure company.
• Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, or Ansible.
• Knowledge of Linux internals, including I/O subsystems, devices, and volumes.

Culture & Benefits

• Work on urgent, high-impact infrastructure for production AI workloads.
• Health, vision, and dental insurance, including HDHP and PPO options, with HSA contributions.
• Restricted Stock Units, a 401(k) with a 100% match up to 4% of salary, and competitive pay.
• Paid parental leave, life insurance, short- and long-term disability coverage, and generous paid time off.
• Tuition reimbursement, commuter FSA benefits, cell phone reimbursement, Teladoc, Calm, and MetLife Legal.