Valar Atomics · 4 hours ago
Data & Storage Engineer
Hawthorne, CA
Full-time
Onsite
Mid LevelValar Atomics is a company focused on technology, security, and power generation, seeking a Data & Storage Engineer to join their high-impact IT team. The role involves building and operating systems for data handling and ensuring data integrity and usability across the company, particularly for reactor and test operations.
EnergyNuclearOil and GasPower Grid
No H1B
Responsibilities
Own data pipelines end-to-end: ingest, normalize, store, validate, and present data for engineering and operations use
Operate and evolve observability/data tooling such as Gravwell (or similar SIEM), Grafana, InfluxDB, Telegraf, and related telemetry sources (SNMP/Syslog/Pcap/Windows Event Log/etc)
Build and maintain dashboards for operations, engineering, and troubleshooting: clean visuals, accurate metrics, and usable drill-down
Ensure data integrity: schema/retention planning, validation, backup/restore testing, and preventing silent data loss/corruption
Implement and maintain unidirectional duplication/replication of databases where required (designing for safety, separation, and reliability)
Manage storage systems supporting data workloads: ZFS, HBAs, RAID, capacity planning, performance tuning, and failure recovery
Support Azure VM-based workloads related to data storage, ingestion, and visualization services
Work with packetized data and network telemetry when troubleshooting ingest issues (basic packet capture, decoding, and tracing)
Document systems, runbooks, and operational procedures (SOPs), with an emphasis on repeatability and reliability
(Optional / nice to have) Integrate with or support Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian environments if/when present
Qualification
Required
In your free time you build your technical skills via personal projects
Are very passionate about technology, security, and/or power generation
Get excited getting to learn and not discouraged by your ignorance
Able to work effectively with only the end goal provided
Comfortable saying when something is unrealistic or a problem immediately
Able to start work prior to Jan 31st, 2026
Can work on-site 5-7 days a week in Hawthorne, CA
Comfortable with frequent travel to our reactor site in Orangeville, UT (Guaranteed travel in February 2026)
Hands-on experience operating production data systems across both storage and visualization/analysis layers
Experience with time-series and telemetry pipelines (InfluxDB + Telegraf or equivalent)
Dashboarding and visualization experience (Grafana or similar), including building usable views for non-specialists
Strong storage fundamentals, ideally with ZFS and direct-attached storage concepts (HBAs/RAID), including recovery workflows
Ability to reason about data integrity and reliability: retention, backups, validation, replication, and failure modes
Comfort working with log/telemetry sources like Syslog, SNMP, Windows Event Logs, and packet captures
Basic understanding of networks and packetized data (enough to debug ingest/transport issues end-to-end)
Ability to plan, communicate, prioritize, and deliver scoped projects with minimal oversight
Strong documentation habits: clear runbooks, diagrams where needed, and change logging
A builder/operator: you like owning systems in production and making them reliable
Data-driven and practical—you measure, validate, and don't hand-wave
Comfortable working cross-functionally with IT, Instrumentation & Control, and operations stakeholders
Calm under pressure when data pipelines break and people need answers
Biased toward simple, robust systems over fragile complexity
Preferred
Integrate with or support Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk Historian environments if/when present
Gravwell experience (or another SIEM/log analytics stack)
Experience with OT-adjacent data collection (industrial networks/controls telemetry, historians, segmented environments)
FactoryTalk Historian familiarity
Automation/scripting to reduce toil and improve reliability
Experience designing one-way data flows / replication patterns for safety or segmentation constraints
Benefits
Catered lunches
Competitive pay
Company
Valar Atomics
Valar Atomics is a company focused on scaling nuclear energy beyond the traditional electricity grid.
Founded in 2023
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageTotal Funding
$149MKey Investors
Riot Ventures
2025-11-10Series A· $105M
2025-11-10Debt Financing· $25M
2025-02-19Seed· $19M
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