Storage Engineer

Description:

Our client is seeking an experienced Storage Engineer to manage and scale their high-performance storage platforms in Chicago. This critical role will support massive data volumes and computational workloads essential to global trading and research initiatives. The engineer will be responsible for designing, deploying, and maintaining robust storage solutions while ensuring performance, scalability, and reliability across global systems.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design & Deployment: Design and implement global storage solutions that focus on performance, scalability, and reliability

• Collaboration: Work with research and engineering teams to optimize data workflows and storage usage

• Troubleshooting: Diagnose and resolve complex storage, Linux, and networking issues

• Integration: Integrate storage with distributed compute clusters and hardware such as NVMe, GPUs, and high-speed NICs

• Capacity Planning & Performance Tuning: Perform capacity planning, tune performance (latency, IOPS, throughput), and conduct benchmarking

• Support: Participate in follow-the-sun support for critical storage infrastructure

Required Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in storage architecture/design for large-scale compute environments

• Expertise with storage systems such as Lustre, GPFS, S3, BeeGFS, Weka, Ceph, Vast, PowerScale, DDN, MinIO

• Strong Linux engineering skills, including bare-metal, kernel, and system administration

• Solid understanding of storage stack internals (filesystems, block storage, I/O)

• Experience with storage benchmarking and performance tuning

• Familiarity with storage-critical hardware such as NVMe, CPU/GPU, PCIe, NICs, and PMEM

• Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Go, Rust, or Bash

• Strong communication skills

Desired Skills:

• Experience with Kubernetes (CSI), Slurm, AWS/GCP, HDFS, AI/ML frameworks, Prometheus, Terraform/Ansible