Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Storage)

Job summary

The Staff Infrastructure Engineer owns the architecture, data organization, and evolution of large-scale storage systems that serve business teams efficiently as workloads grow. The role defines storage layouts and access patterns, improves cost through tiering, lifecycle management, compression, and deduplication, and builds self-service capabilities for ingestion, discovery, access, and troubleshooting. It also leads cross-team requirements and migrations, validating production improvements against durability, performance, and service-level targets.

Benefits

Qualifications

• Deep experience designing and operating large-scale storage systems.
• Sound judgment on consistency, replication, failure recovery, and capacity planning.
• Ability to diagnose I/O bottlenecks and optimize data structures and read/write paths for representative workloads.
• Ability to quantify storage, request, retrieval, network transfer, and operational costs, and validate savings without compromising service levels.
• Strong collaboration skills, including reconciling conflicting needs, explaining tradeoffs, building consensus, and following through on shared commitments.
• Product sense and technical judgment to turn recurring business needs into simple, maintainable infrastructure.
• Experience delivering storage migrations or shared data services across teams is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Design storage architecture, including data layout, partitioning, indexing, metadata, and access patterns.
• Reduce storage costs through tiering, lifecycle management, compression, deduplication, and reduced data movement.
• Build storage interfaces and self-service capabilities for ingestion, discovery, access, and troubleshooting.
• Coordinate requirements, ownership, and migration plans across product, data, research, and infrastructure teams.
• Lead adoption and verify production improvements against durability and performance targets.

Relocation