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Railway · 5 months ago

Senior Platform Engineer: Storage

United States

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level

Railway is a company focused on empowering software engineers with powerful tools. The Senior Platform Engineer will be responsible for designing and evolving production Ceph clusters, creating efficient APIs for live migrations, and building orchestration services to support storage primitives.

Developer ToolsInformation TechnologySoftware

Responsibilities

Design and evolve multiple production Ceph clusters, from hardware design, to driving network requirements to configuring, tuning and operating clusters and their clients

Create efficient, generalizable APIs using systems/kernel features to provide safe, as-fast-as-possible live-migrations of stateful workload between hosts

Design and build API and Orchestration services to tie storage primitives to higher level primitives using Go, gRPC, ScyllaDB and Temporal

Write Engineering Requirement Documents to take something from idea, to defined tasks, to implementation, to monitoring it’s success

Design build a suite of storage primitives that can be used by customer applications, internal services and enable higher level platform features such as streaming image pulls or movable build caches

Qualification

Distributed systems architectureCeph clusters managementAPI developmentGo programmingGRPCScyllaDBTemporalCurrent gen filesystemsPrioritizationGritCommunication skillsProblem-solving

Required

Experience architecting and implementing distributed systems

Production experience with distributed block device systems (e.g Ceph) or a solid understanding of network storage cluster design from first principles

Understanding and experience with current gen filesystems (Ext4, ZFS, BTRFS). Bonus points for next gen (EROFS, bcachefs)

A solid intuition about how long your solutions will last

The tact to implement your solution, creator monitors for it's error boundaries, and document any requirements for when you're not around

A great sense of direction and prioritization when it comes to dealing with the ambiguity of an early stage startup

A sense of grit to dive into a problem, implement a solution, scale that solution, and replace it when needed

A great set of communication skills for getting your point across, solution implemented, and beyond