Senior Infrastructure Engineer

Senior Infrastructure Engineer

If you’re passionate about infrastructure at scale, have deep expertise in Ceph, and enjoy contributing to open-source communities, this is an opportunity to make a significant impact.

We’re looking for a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to design, automate, and operate large-scale storage systems using Ceph in modern Kubernetes environments. You’ll work across diverse hardware deployments and play a hands-on role in shaping tools and infrastructure used across the broader Ceph and CNCF ecosystems.

Key Responsibilities

• Manage Ceph at Scale: Design, deploy, and maintain Ceph clusters across heterogeneous on-prem hardware, ensuring high availability, resilience, and performance.
• Automate Infrastructure: Create and maintain automation strategies and tooling to orchestrate hundreds of Ceph deployments using best-in-class platforms and infrastructure-as-code practices.
• Contribute Upstream: Drive adoption of cutting-edge tooling and contribute upstream to Ceph, Rook, and CNCF projects as needed.
• Engage in Open Source: Collaborate with open-source communities, including Ceph developers and CNCF maintainers, to exchange knowledge and shape the future of infrastructure tooling.
• Architect for the Future: Help build scalable, stable, and secure infrastructure that powers mission-critical systems across a wide range of workloads.

What You Bring

• Deep Ceph & Rook Knowledge: Hands-on experience managing and operating Ceph clusters, ideally via Rook in Kubernetes-based environments.
• Automation & Tooling: Strong proficiency with infrastructure automation (e.g., Terraform, Kubernetes Operators), and scripting or coding in Go, Java, or similar languages.
• Systems Programming: Proficient in low-level systems programming in Go, Rust, C/C++, or equivalent.
• Hardware & OS Proficiency: Comfortable navigating hardware diagnostics, system tuning, and Linux internals in production environments.
• Networking Fundamentals: Solid understanding of networking, with bonus points for experience in CNIs or cloud/hybrid networking.
• On-Premise Experience: Familiarity with running infrastructure in physical data centers, including sysadmin or SRE responsibilities for bare metal.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience in software development, with a focus on infrastructure or SRE roles.
• 2+ years of system design or architectural experience building reliable, scalable infrastructure.
• 1+ year of production responsibility for Ceph clusters, including operations and maintenance.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.