Storage Engineer

Summary

Join Voltage Park, a company focused on making machine learning infrastructure accessible, as a Storage Engineer. You will be responsible for the buildout, maintenance, and daily operations of our customer-facing storage system. This fully remote role (continental US, PST hours) requires expertise in HPC storage systems, particularly VAST storage systems. You will own the lifecycle of a multi-petabyte system, define SOPs, and handle performance tuning and troubleshooting. Collaboration with other engineers and staying updated on the latest technologies are crucial. Sponsorship is not provided for this position.

Requirements

• Proven experience in deploying and managing storage solutions for large-scale HPC infrastructures
• Experience with VAST storage systems
• Expertise in NFS, high-performance parallel file systems, and related storage networking technologies
• Strong understanding of HPC architectures and storage performance optimization techniques
• Experience with bare metal servers in a datacenter environment
• Experience with Linux, Terraform, Ansible
• Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Experience architecting, building, and delivering complex systems from 0 to 1
• Balances pragmatic development and ideal architectures
• Effective at navigating tradeoffs between design, risk, cost, and outcomes

Responsibilities

• Own the full lifecycle of a multi-petabyte, multi-datacenter VAST storage system
• Define SOPs and runbooks for handling storage system events
• Work on performance tuning, client optimization, and speed / reliability troubleshooting tasks
• Optimize storage performance and scalability for large-scale GPU infrastructure
• Collaborate with other engineers and teams to integrate storage solutions
• Stay updated with the latest storage technologies and best practices in HPC
• Be on-call for urgent system incidents

Preferred Qualifications

• You enjoy working with a small group of friendly, highly motivated, execution focused colleagues
• You’re comfortable with a high degree of autonomy. We expect you to independently prioritize your work and understand how it maps to the overall needs and goals of the company
• You’re knowledgeable in your domain but also enjoy wearing multiple hats and venturing outside of your comfort zone when the need arises
• You value the ability to write well and understand the importance of good documentation

Benefits

Fully remote role