Storage Engineer

Overview

Remote
$50 - $55
Contract - W2
Contract - 6 Month(s)

Skills

Object Storage
gRPC
Ceph
storage hardware
Programming in Go

Job Details

Job description:

Object Storage & Distributed systems: - Helping replace the Ceph RGW Index with a new indexing scheme that will allow for much greater scale and support for other S3 compatible persistence layers beyond just Ceph.
We are looking for an engineer who will help lead the development and support of current and future storage platforms at scale.
The Storage Team supports the operations and development of block volumes, backups and image management, and object storage. The ultimate goal of the Droplet Storage Team is to create a cohesive singular interface to hypervisor storage where storage class placement decisions are transparent to the hypervisor client and take advantage of the full range of available block storage classes to best satisfy customer needs.
The selected candidate will have the opportunity to make impactful contributions to key software, contribute to the open source community, and debug interesting problems at cloudscale.
What You ll Be Doing: Leading engineering efforts to deliver innovative storage solutions
Supporting the creation and operations of distributed systems
Programming in Go and other languages
Collaborating with a motivated team of peers
Consuming from and contributing to free/open source software communities
Solving interesting problems in a technically rewarding environment
What You ll Add to DigitalOcean: Knowledge of Object Storage and distributed File Systems and how to scale those solutions.
Cultivating your skills, learning languages, and teaming up with an agile, self-motivated group of peers to design, develop, test and deploy software in modern tools and languages such as Go.
Sharing responsibility for maintaining the availability and performance of storage products
Collaborating with and contributing to free and open source software communities
Solving interesting problems of complexity and scale in a technically rewarding environment
Familiarity with concurrency / parallelism models in a modern programming languageBonus:
Experience with gRPC, distributed data stores like Ceph, and storage hardware

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