Offer summary

Qualifications:

10+ years of storage platforms experience, Deep understanding of HDD, SSD technology, Strong knowledge of Linux OS and ZFS, Experience in backend storage services development, Familiarity with cloud environments and containers.

Key responsabilities:

Design, develop, and maintain storage software

Drive new storage capabilities to fruition

Write clean and efficient code and documentation

Troubleshoot production environment issues

Improve software and agile processes

Job description

Role Description: Principal Software Engineer – Storage

Role Purpose:

Wasabi Technologies Inc. is seeking for a Principal Engineer – Storage to join our Software Development team. In this role, you will use your knowledge of storage devices, the Linux kernel/OS, filesystem and software development to help a team dedicated to a highly reliable, secure, scalable and innovative technology for Wasabi's hot cloud storage service. The Wasabi hot cloud storage service is an enterprise-grade public cloud object storage service that consists of Wasabi-built and Wasabi-optimized software that operates on leading-edge compute and storage hardware.

The Wasabi technology stack is deployed as Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) in top-tier data centers in 6 storage regions in the US, EMEA, and JAPAC. The number of storage regions will increase in the future, as well the features and packaging options associated with the Wasabi service. The Wasabi service is used by a global customer base with over 25,000 customers and 4,500 resellers. Services that are comparable to Wasabi include AWS S3, Microsoft Azure Blob, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP) Storage.

To be successful in this role, you should have expertise in agile software development, be able to collaborate with team members, and be a strategic problem-solver. In this position, you should demonstrate excellent communication skills, an ability to connect with other engineers and developers, and have a solid foundation in software design.

*Principals only. No recruiters.

Responsibilities:

Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve storage software.

Contribute and drive idea generation for new storage capabilities and bring them to fruition.

Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code in addition to tests and documentation.

Troubleshoot hardware and software, monitor, maintenance and operation of a production environment.

Contribute to the improvement of the storage team’s software and agile process.

Requirements:

10+ years of storage platforms experience.

Deep understanding of HDD, SSD, disk enclosure and host adapter hardware including SAS, NVME and fabric connectivity.

Strong knowledge of Linux OS and file systems preferably including ZFS.

Experience developing and deploying backend storage services in Go or C++.

Understanding of modern API best practices (HTTP, REST, Swagger, gRPC).

Familiarity with modern virtualization and containerization technologies (virtual machines, Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and public cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc).

Required profile