Senior Storage Engineer (AI)

Location: EU / Remote; hybrid setup with locations in Helsinki and London

Company

hirify.global is building a European cloud computing platform for deploying and scaling applications and workloads on infrastructure powered by 100% renewable energy.

What you will do

• Lead the design, deployment, and operation of large-scale Ceph clusters for production workloads.
• Set the technical direction for storage architecture, standards, operational practices, and roadmap.
• Bring a managed Object Storage product to market, including access keys, bucket and object management, SLOs, monitoring, and alerting.
• Scale and maintain storage systems from petabytes to tens or hundreds of petabytes across CephFS, RBD, and RADOS Gateway.
• Mentor engineers through reviews, pairing, and shared on-call, while improving observability, automation, and operational tooling.
• Integrate storage with GPU clusters, lead capacity planning and upgrades, troubleshoot incidents, and drive post-mortem improvements.

Requirements

• Deep expertise in Ceph deployment, cluster architecture, operations, troubleshooting, and performance tuning.
• Experience operating Ceph at multi-petabyte scale in production.
• Technical leadership experience owning a storage or infrastructure area end to end.
• Experience mentoring engineers and operating mission-critical production infrastructure, including on-call.
• Strong knowledge of Linux systems and internals, networking, distributed systems debugging, and infrastructure automation.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills for cross-team and customer-facing work.

Nice to have

• Experience operating RADOS Gateway as a customer-facing managed Object Storage product.
• Production experience with CephFS and knowledge of Ansible.
• Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, or similar observability tools.
• Experience operating storage at a cloud provider or at 10–100 PB scale.
• Familiarity with GPU and AI workload storage patterns.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, permanent employment.
• Cash and equity compensation.
• Healthcare, lunch, wellbeing, and other fringe benefits.
• Work alongside engineers, researchers, and partners across the global AI ecosystem.
• Low hierarchy and a collaborative, international environment.

Hiring process

• Applications are submitted through the Careers page; email applications are not accepted.
• Hiring proceeds without an artificial deadline and moves forward once a suitable candidate is found.