Open roles · San Jose, CA
Senior Storage Engineer, AI Clusters
- Pay
- $185,000-$235,000 per year
- Type
- Full-time
- Shift
- On site, days
Posted 2026-10-06 · Employer: Confidential AI compute cloud provider. Your application goes straight to Czarina Tabayoyong, who is running this search.
What you will do
- Deploy and operate parallel filesystems such as WEKA, Lustre, Ceph or BeeGFS
- Tune storage for checkpointing, data loading and multi-reader training patterns
- Plan capacity, tiering and lifecycle across NVMe, SSD and HDD
- Own backup, snapshots, replication and disaster recovery
- Integrate storage with Slurm, Kubernetes and data pipelines
- Evaluate storage technologies and vendors for next-generation clusters
What you bring
- 5+ years of storage engineering in large-scale environments
- Production experience with Lustre, Ceph, WEKA, BeeGFS or GPFS
- Linux storage stack: NVMe, RAID, LVM, NFS
- Understanding of AI workload I/O patterns
- S3-compatible object storage at scale
- Python and Bash automation
- US work authorization
Who is hiring
Confidential AI compute cloud provider, hiring in San Jose, CA. The employer is kept confidential in the public posting at their request; the company name, site and team structure are shared with you on the first screening call before anything is submitted.
- Posting reference
- senior-storage-engineer-ai-cluster-san-jose
- Posted
- 2026-10-06
- Open through
- 2027-01-06
Who is recruiting
Critical Path Hiring, an independent, founder-led recruiting practice for data center, GPU cloud and AI infrastructure employers. Every search is run end to end by Czarina Tabayoyong, Founder & Principal Recruiter, with more than 15 years of recruiting experience in technical recruiting across cloud infrastructure, critical facilities and AI platform teams.
- Contact
- czarina@thetalentog.com
- Coverage
- United States, nationwide
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