Senior Engineer, Storage Services

Role description

Role Overview

Nscale is hiring a Senior Engineer, Storage Services to provide technical leadership across storage services group and shape the architecture, engineering direction, and technical quality of services spanning Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage.

What You Will Do

As a Senior Engineer, you will provide technical leadership, design scalable storage solutions, guide key engineering decisions, and drive architectural consistency across storage services.

Why It Might Be a Fit

The ideal candidate has proven experience in a senior technical role within storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering, and a deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including performance, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.

Requirements

• Proven experience in a senior technical role within storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.
• Deep expertise across modern storage architectures, including Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage systems.
• Strong track record of leading technical direction in complex engineering environments without formal people management authority.
• Demonstrable experience designing and operating large-scale, production-grade storage or infrastructure services.
• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including performance, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.
• Experience working on platform-level services that support multiple products, teams, or customer use cases.
• Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across architecture, operations, cost, performance, and customer requirements.
• Hands-on engineering credibility with the ability to go deep into technical design, review implementation approaches, and guide teams through complex problems.
• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team or organisation.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain complex technical concepts clearly and influence stakeholders across engineering and leadership teams.
• Comfort operating across both strategic and detailed technical work, from long-term architecture through to practical delivery guidance.
• Experience in AI, HPC, data-intensive, or performance-sensitive environments would be highly advantageous.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package (base + bonus + equity)
• Flexible paid time off
• Parental leave
• Retirement plan participation
• Medical, dental, vision insurance
• Flexible workplace