Staff Engineer, Storage Services

Responsibilities

We are representing a confidential cloud infrastructure organization seeking a Staff Engineer, Storage Services to provide senior technical leadership across their storage engineering group. This is a senior individual contributor role reporting to executive engineering leadership.

In this position, you will:

• Provide technical leadership across Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage services
• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and high-performance storage solutions aligned with the broader platform architecture
• Guide key engineering decisions, review designs, and uphold high standards of technical quality across the storage estate
• Drive architectural consistency, sound engineering practices, and strong technical governance across storage services
• Work closely with engineering leadership to translate storage strategy into clear technical plans, priorities, and implementation approaches
• Influence the roadmap by clarifying technical trade-offs, platform dependencies, and long-term architectural considerations
• Identify technical risks, scalability constraints, and operational weaknesses before they become larger issues
• Partner with engineers across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage services integrate effectively
• Support teams with hands-on guidance to solve complex engineering challenges
• Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts, and design work for new storage capabilities and service improvements
• Support the team in improving service reliability, observability, performance, supportability, and operational maturity
• Contribute to major incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement where deep storage expertise is required
• Mentor and support engineers within the storage services group, helping raise technical capability across the team
• Act as a senior technical authority by reviewing implementation approaches and guiding teams through difficult technical problems

What We're Looking For

• Proven experience in a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Lead Architect, or similar senior technical role within storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering
• Deep expertise across modern storage architectures, including Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage systems
• Strong track record of leading technical direction in complex engineering environments without formal people management authority
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating large-scale, production-grade storage or infrastructure services
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including performance, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability
• Experience working on platform-level services that support multiple products, teams, or customer use cases
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across architecture, operations, cost, performance, and customer requirements
• Hands-on engineering credibility with the ability to go deep into technical design, review implementation approaches, and guide teams through complex problems
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team or organization
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and influence stakeholders across engineering and leadership teams
• Comfort operating across both strategic and detailed technical work, from long-term architecture through to practical delivery guidance
• Experience in AI, HPC, data-intensive, or performance-sensitive environments would be highly advantageous
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience

How We Work With You

Our talent team at Get A Job.ai partners with leading technology organizations to connect exceptional engineering talent with transformative opportunities. When you apply through our platform:

• A dedicated recruiter will review your application and schedule an initial screening conversation
• We'll work with you to understand your technical background, career goals, and fit for this senior IC role
• If there's a strong match, we'll submit your profile to our client for consideration
• Throughout the process, we'll provide guidance and support to help you succeed
• Please do not contact the client directly—all applications must come through Get A Job.ai

Pay

Compensation details will be discussed during the screening process with our recruiting team.

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