Principal Storage Network Engineer

Position Summary: This person will work with Staff and Sr. Engineers to innovate and build new systems and enhance existing systems. You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap for our Continuous Availability Fabric, increasing the velocity of delivering products and unlocking new engineering capabilities. The ideal candidate has deep technical knowledge supporting large-scale, complex networks for connecting modern distributed storage systems with a strong understanding of high-performance networking protocols and standards.

Position Responsibilities: Lead the design and architecture of Triple-Path Network Fabrics (N+2), ensuring physical or logical isolation between Production, Replication, and Maintenance traffic paths. Implement and maintain the 'Hardened Storage Vault,' ensuring network-level N+3 resilience and high-availability sharding. Optimize connectivity for Bare Metal K8s, Nutanix and or Openstack Access Layers, ensuring seamless driver integration for Ceph and NVMe-oF.Evaluate emerging storage-networking technologies (e.g., NVMe over TCP, S3 Object, and Legacy CIFS/NFS) to recommend strategic infrastructure investments. Configure and maintain high-performance hardware, specifically Dell R660/R760 platforms equipped with Nvidia ConnectX-7 or equivalent high-speed NICs.

Minimum Qualifications: 10+ years of professional experience in Network Engineering. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience. Experience specifically in Storage Fabric Architecture and Design. Experience with storage-centric networking protocols, including NVMe-oF (TCP), BGP, OSPF, and QoS.Hands-on experience with high-performance data center equipment, like Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Nvidia/Mellanox fabric switches. Knowledge of Software Defined Storage Networking. Experience solving analytical problems with quantitative approaches related to storage latency and throughput. The Company recruits for positions located in the United States and does not market employment opportunities to individuals located in the European Economic Area or United Kingdom. Individuals who voluntarily submit applications from outside the United States do so on their own initiative. By submitting an application, you acknowledge that your personal information may be collected, used, and shared with the Company, its affiliates, and authorized recruiting partners for recruitment, hiring, and employment-related purposes. Applicants may have certain rights regarding their personal information under applicable law, including the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended.