Senior Storage Engineer
5 hours agoSeniorSalary: 250K - 370KSan Jose, San Francisco, or Bellevue OfficeHybridFull TimeEngineeringJobs by Lambda
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Lambda is an AI infrastructure company providing GPU supercomputers and cloud capacity for AI training and inference.
Series ERecently funded
San Francisco, United States
About Lambda
Lambda, Inc. builds and operates AI-focused compute infrastructure, including single-tenant Superclusters, deployable 1-Click Clusters, and on-demand GPU Instances for researchers, enterprises, and hyperscalers.
Skills
About the Role
You will focus on design, standards, and domain expertise for high-performance storage supporting AI clusters. You will author validation plans for new storage tiers, draft SOPs and monitoring frameworks, own storage access control, lead vendor technical communications, and mentor junior engineers.
Requirements
- 8+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
- Familiarity with storage solutions from vendors such as Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
- Knowledge of file, block, and object storage
- Knowledge of NFS, SMB, and POSIX protocols
- Knowledge of NVMe over Fabric: NVMe/TCP, NVMe/IB, or NVMe/RoCE
- Understanding of RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
- Understanding of encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy
- Understanding of data protection, backup, and disaster recovery
- 5+ years of Infrastructure as Code experience
Responsibilities
- Author performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers
- Draft SOPs and alerting/monitoring frameworks
- Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing vendor and customer permissions
- Lead technical communications with vendors and act as SME for customer success
- Mentor junior engineers in storage sub-domains
Benefits
- Cash and equity compensation
- Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and dependents
- Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
- 401k plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
- Flexible paid time off
