# Senior Engineer, Storage (File & Block)

**Company**: CoreWeave
**Location**: San Francisco, CA
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $182,000 to $242,000
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

### Job Summary

We are seeking a Senior Storage Engineer, File & Block to join our Storage team at CoreWeave. As a Senior Storage Engineer, you will be responsible for building and operating the file and block storage services that power our large AI training and inference workloads and internal stateful services.

### Responsibilities

- Design, build, and operate highly scalable, multi-tenant file and block storage services

- Own the file system data path, including NFS hot-path reliability, IO resilience, and performance

- Build a native block storage service with durable, high-performance block volumes for customer workloads and internal stateful services

- Deliver both file and block as first-class Kubernetes citizens with dynamic provisioning, resize, snapshots, and RWO block volumes

- Build the control plane with multi-tenant isolation, quota, QoS, snapshots, key management, audit, and lifecycle policy

- Improve the reliability, durability, and observability of the storage stack

- Work cross-functionally with platform, product, and infrastructure teams to deliver seamless storage across the stack

- Share your knowledge and mentor other engineers on best practices in building distributed, high-performance systems

### Requirements

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field

- 6-10 years of experience building storage systems, distributed systems, or infrastructure services

- Strong hands-on experience with distributed or networked file systems and/or block storage in production

- Depth in the storage data path, including IO performance, caching, small-file and metadata-heavy workloads, crash consistency, and resilience under load

- Experience with multi-tenant services or storage control planes

- Proficiency in a systems/back-end language, preferably Go

- Experience building on Kubernetes, including controllers/operators, CRDs, and CSI

- Familiarity with distributed databases, workflow orchestration, and gRPC/Protobuf service design

- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills in distributed, high-performance environments

- Clear communication and collaboration skills

### Nice to Have

- Experience with distributed or parallel storage stacks such as Ceph/RBD, Lustre, GPFS/Spectrum Scale, BeeGFS, WEKA, VAST, or DAOS

- Familiarity with storage observability tools and telemetry pipelines

- Exposure to high-performance data-path technologies

### What We Offer

- Competitive salary: $182,000 to $242,000 per year

- Comprehensive benefits package, including medical, dental, and vision insurance, company-paid life insurance, and flexible spending account

- Opportunity to participate in employee stock purchase program

- Mental wellness benefits and family-forming support

- Paid parental leave and flexible PTO

- Flexible, full-service childcare support and catered lunch in our office and data center locations

- A casual work environment and a work culture focused on innovative disruption

## Skills

### Required
- distributed systems
- storage systems
- Kubernetes
- Go
- CSI
- distributed databases
- workflow orchestration
- gRPC/Protobuf

### Nice to have
- Ceph/RBD
- Lustre
- GPFS/Spectrum Scale
- BeeGFS
- WEKA
- VAST
- DAOS
- ClickHouse
- Prometheus
- Grafana
- RDMA
- GPUDirect Storage
- RoCE
- InfiniBand
- SPDK

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