Role in brief
Eqvilent seeks a Senior Storage Engineer to manage and optimize its core storage infrastructure for high-frequency trading. This role involves ensuring the reliability and performance of storage systems, integrating them with compute environments, and enhancing operational practices. Candidates with experience in large-scale storage, Linux, and an ownership mindset will find this role a good fit.
About the role
This role at Eqvilent focuses on the critical storage platform that supports high-frequency trading, underpinning data processing, analytics, and compute-intensive workloads. The Senior Storage Engineer will be responsible for the reliability and performance of these systems, directly impacting company productivity and cost efficiency. Success in this position means the storage infrastructure consistently operates without bottlenecks, delays, or operational risks.
The work involves continuously improving storage systems as data volumes and workloads expand, designing strategies for data placement, resiliency, and lifecycle management. A key aspect is ensuring predictable platform behavior during failures, maintenance, and scaling. The engineer will also integrate storage with various compute environments, including GPU/HPC and Kubernetes, and enhance incident management and capacity planning.
This position requires a practical approach to automation and system reliability, with an emphasis on continuous improvement of tooling and operational practices. The goal is to make the storage platform easier to operate and scale. The ideal candidate will take ownership of critical systems, troubleshooting complex issues and driving them to resolution, ensuring the infrastructure remains robust and efficient.
The annual salary for this role ranges from $115,000 to $195,500.
Skills that matter here
- Linux: A strong understanding of Linux is required to manage storage performance and analyze system behavior under load.
- storage systems: Experience operating large-scale production storage systems, whether distributed or vendor-based, is essential for this role.
- automation: A practical approach to automation is needed to improve tooling and operational practices for the storage platform.
- Kubernetes: This role involves improving how storage integrates with compute environments, including Kubernetes.
- data pipelines: The storage platform underpins data processing and data pipelines, requiring integration and optimization for these workloads.
Who this role suits
- A person who thrives on taking full responsibility for critical infrastructure systems.
- Someone who enjoys troubleshooting complex technical issues and seeing them through to resolution.
- An individual with a proactive mindset, consistently seeking to improve system reliability and operational efficiency.
- A professional who can balance performance, cost, and reliability in their technical designs and strategies.
From the employer
- Ensuring storage is reliable, predictable, and not a bottleneck for any critical workloads across the company
- Owning performance and stability of storage systems, and continuously improving them as data volumes and workloads grow
- Designing and evolving data placement, resiliency, and lifecycle strategies to balance performance, cost, and reliability
- Ensuring the platform behaves predictably during failures, maintenance, and scaling events
- Improving how storage integrates with compute environments (GPU/HPC, Kubernetes, data pipelines)
- Driving faster and more reliable incident detection, resolution, and prevention
- Improving capacity planning to avoid emergency scaling and unexpected degradation
- Continuously improving tooling, automation, and operational practices to make the platform easier to operate and scale
- Experience operating large-scale storage systems in production (distributed or vendor-based)
- Strong understanding of Linux, storage performance, and system behavior under load
- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive them to resolution
- Practical approach to automation and system reliability
- Ownership mindset — ability to take responsibility for critical systems and improve them over time
Nice-to-have:
- Experience working with high-performance or distributed storage systems
- Understanding of networking in high-throughput environments
- Experience in environments with high reliability and performance requirements (finance, HFT, etc.)
- Great challenges with many opportunities to prove yourself
- A welcoming group of highly qualified international professionals
- Cutting-edge hardware and technology
- Work remotely from anywhere in the world
- Access any of our global offices anytime
- Flexible schedule
- 40 paid days off
- Competitive salary
Questions about this role
What is the remote work policy for this role?
This is a fully remote position, allowing you to work from anywhere in the world, with access to global offices if desired.
What level of seniority is expected for this position?
This is a senior-level role, requiring experience in operating large-scale storage systems in production environments.
What are the key technical skills required?
Key skills include experience with Linux, large-scale storage systems, automation, Kubernetes, and data pipelines.
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