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Member of Technical Staff (Storage)
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About this role
Role overview
Shape and build the storage systems underlying a distributed database, with responsibility for durable, efficient data persistence and retrieval. You’ll lead substantial engineering work across storage engines, storage interfaces, encryption at rest, and cloud environments, weighing durability, performance, scalability, cost, and operational simplicity. The role combines hands-on systems engineering with technical leadership across engineering and product teams.
Responsibilities
- Solve complex storage problems and design significant improvements to database storage systems. - Lead initiatives with engineering and product partners, clarify tradeoffs, and build alignment across teams. - Collaborate across database, cloud, product, support, and field engineering groups. - Raise engineering quality through design reviews, mentorship, and clear technical communication. - Help the team use AI development tools while maintaining high software quality. - Contribute to production reliability and participate in the storage on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 8+ years building complex distributed systems or storage software. - Significant experience in areas such as concurrency control, filesystems, replication, I/O performance, or memory management. - Experience building or evolving storage architectures such as LSM trees, blob storage, or cloud object storage. - Experience operating and debugging large-scale distributed systems in production, including rolling upgrades. - Ability to lead technically while collaborating, sharing context, and communicating design decisions clearly.
Benefits and work setup
The role follows a hybrid schedule for people near an office, with in-person days Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday and flexibility on other days. Listed benefits include stock options, health and insurance coverage, professional development funds, flexible time off, paid holidays and sick days, parental leave, retirement benefits, and mental wellbeing support. The anticipated annual base salary ranges are USD $180,000–$238,100 or CAD $159,000–$210,100, depending on location and qualifications.