Software Engineer - Storage

Vultr is seeking a skilled Software Engineer to develop and enhance our cloud-based storage products. The ideal candidate has strong software engineering fundamentals, experience with storage systems, and a passion for building reliable, scalable platforms. This is an opportunity to join our Storage team and contribute to the control plane and orchestration code that powers Vultr’s Object, Block, and File storage offerings across 30+ data centers globally.

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Engineering teams to research and develop new features, respond to technical debt, and improve application performance

• Design, develop, and maintain storage-related contributions to our control plane written in PHP, and integrate orchestration code in Python to manage and automate cloud storage operations

• Contribute to the open-source Ceph project, ensuring its reliability, performance, and features meet our customers’ goals

• Design and contribute to cloud provider solutions for high-performance computing, AI training, and inference workloads, focusing on Object, Block, and File storage solutions

• Collaborate with internal and external teams to support the resourcing and deployment of new features

• Optimize and refactor existing codebases for performance and maintainability

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in software engineering with a focus on storage or distributed systems

• Proficiency in PHP and Python with experience developing control plane and orchestration code

• Understanding of cloud storage architectures and technologies

• Solid knowledge of Linux/Unix operating systems

• Experience with distributed systems and networking fundamentals

• Familiarity with containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration tools like Kubernetes

• Problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment

• Communication skills and the ability to articulate technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders

Our Ideal Candidate

• Experience contributing to or maintaining large open-source projects, preferably Ceph

• A strong belief in documentation as a core aspect of engineering

• Experience with Linux and/or BSD

• Experience with configuration management solutions like Puppet and Ansible

• Experience with Ceph deployment, configuration, and optimization

• Experience with Test Driven Development

• Knowledge of other programming languages such as Go or Lua

• Familiarity with continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) pipelines

• Experience in developing and maintaining RESTful APIs