# Storage Software Engineer

**Company**: NVIDIA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

NVIDIA's DGXC Storage team is seeking a hands-on Storage Software Engineer to join as an individual contributor and technical lead. The engineer will contribute to open-source parallel and distributed file systems, ensuring the largest GPU clusters are fast, reliable, and durable.

**Responsibilities:**

- Contribute to open-source file systems, including parallel and distributed file systems and distributed object storage.

- Serve as a hands-on storage software lead, writing and reviewing production code, and making technical calls on storage deliveries.

- Triage and troubleshoot large, complex storage issues across extensive GPU clusters.

- Validate storage architecture, capabilities, performance, and durability.

- Recommend configuration, tuning, and operational best practices for high-performance file systems on GPU infrastructure.

- Collaborate with various teams, including training, inference, and accelerated-computing teams, site-reliability and operations, networking, and security.

**Requirements:**

- BS, MS, or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

- Over 12 years of direct experience in storage software engineering, including extensive involvement with a high-performance parallel or distributed file system handling multi-petabyte scale.

- Contributions to open-source projects involving a distributed or parallel file system.

- Experience diagnosing and resolving storage problems in extensive GPU or HPC clusters.

- Strong proficiency in at least one systems language (C, C++, Rust, or Go) and proficiency in Python.

- Solid understanding of object storage and block storage.

- Strong written and verbal communication skills.

**Benefits:**

- Base salary range: 224,000 USD - 356,500 USD for Level 5, and 272,000 USD - 431,250 USD for Level 6.

- Equity and benefits eligibility.

## Skills

### Required
- C
- C++
- Rust
- Go
- Python
- object storage
- block storage
- distributed file systems

### Nice to have
- SPDK
- libfabric
- FUSE
- Kubernetes
- CSI driver development

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