Senior Storage Engineer

About the role

As a Senior Storage Engineer at Eqvilent, you will be responsible for ensuring the reliability and performance of storage systems that support critical workloads in a high-frequency trading environment. Your work will directly impact the efficiency and productivity of various teams within the company.

You will collaborate with a team of international professionals, tackling challenges related to data processing and storage performance. Success in this role means continuously improving storage systems, enhancing automation, and ensuring predictable behavior during scaling and maintenance events.

The salary range for this role is between $115,000 and $195,500, reflecting the seniority and expertise required.

Skills that matter here

• Linux: This role requires a strong understanding of Linux for operating and troubleshooting storage systems.
• storage systems: Experience with large-scale storage systems is crucial for maintaining performance and reliability.
• automation: A practical approach to automation will help improve operational practices and system reliability.
• Kubernetes: You will improve how storage integrates with Kubernetes and other compute environments.
• data pipelines: Understanding data pipelines is essential for enhancing the storage platform's functionality.

Who this role suits

• Candidates with a strong ownership mindset who take responsibility for critical systems will thrive.
• Individuals who enjoy tackling complex issues and driving them to resolution will find success here.
• Those with experience in high-performance or distributed storage systems will be well-suited for the challenges.
• A collaborative working style and ability to adapt to dynamic environments are important.

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