Senior Storage Engineer

Lambda, The Superintelligence Cloud, is a leader in AI cloud infrastructure serving tens of thousands of customers.

For distributed AI workloads, GPU compute power is only one factor. High-performance networking and storage are essential for interconnecting these systems and supporting AI training and inference at scale.

You will focus on design, standards, and domain expertise.

Responsibilities:

• Validation Design: Author comprehensive performance and correctness validation plans for new storage tiers.
• Standardization: Draft Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) and alerting/monitoring frameworks to scale operations.
• Security & Access: Own the access-control lifecycle for storage solutions, managing both vendor and customer permissions.
• Strategic Partnerships: Lead technical communications with vendors and act as a subject matter expert (SME) for customer success and complex account assistance.
• Leadership: Identify and act on signals for operational ownership; mentor junior engineers in specific storage sub-domains.

Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale multi-petabyte storage production environments
• A strong understanding of diverse storage solutions and their ecosystems
• Familiarity with one or more storage solutions of the following vendors: Vast, Weka, DDN, NetApp, PureStorage, Dell, IBM, HPE
• File, Block, and Object storage types
• Storage Network Access Protocols such as NFS, SMB, and POSIX-compliant protocols
• NVME over Fabric Storage Transport Protocols: NVME/TCP, NVME/IB, or NVME/RoCE
• Storage performance via RDMA, GPUDirect Storage, parallel file systems
• Encryption, storage security, and multi-tenancy strategies
• Storage data-reduction and compression
• Data protection concepts, backup strategies, and disaster recovery
• 5+ years of experience in Infrastructure as Code (e.g. Terraform, Ansible)

Nice to Have:

• Experience with Kubernetes, including CSI and COSI drivers and CNI’s
• Deep understanding of storage performance
• Strong understanding of public cloud features (e.g., SDN, block storage, distributed file systems, identity management)
• Experience deploying, operating, and maintaining Software Defined Storage
• Have implemented either open-source or commercial storage monitoring solutions

Benefits:

• Generous cash & equity compensation
• Health, dental, and vision coverage for you and your dependents
• Wellness and commuter stipends for select roles
• 401k Plan with 2% company match (USA employees)
• Flexible paid time off plan