Senior Ceph Storage Engineer- SRE

GoDaddy provides tools and services that help entrepreneurs build and manage their online businesses. The Senior Ceph Storage Engineer will serve as a principal technical leader for the global Ceph platform, designing storage architecture, leading upgrades and capacity planning, resolving complex incidents, and establishing automation and reliability standards.

Responsibilities:

• Design and architect large-scale production Ceph clusters, including CRUSH topology, failure-domain modeling, replication and erasure-coding strategies, storage hardware selection, and data placement architecture
• Lead fleet-wide capacity planning, performance modeling, and hardware qualification across 80+ production clusters comprising 20,000+ OSDs and 300 PB of raw storage
• Own major platform upgrades and migration initiatives, including Ceph releases, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale storage modernization efforts
• Drive resolution of the most complex cross-functional production incidents spanning storage, networking, virtualization, and compute systems
• Establish automation, operational standards, and reliability practices that improve platform scalability, reduce toil, and increase engineering efficiency across the storage organization

Requirements:

• This is a remote position, so you'll be working remotely from your home
• You may occasionally visit a GoDaddy office to meet with your team for events or meetings
• 7+ years designing, operating, and scaling distributed storage platforms, including deep hands-on ownership of production Ceph environments
• Expert-level Ceph knowledge including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD architecture, MON/MGR/MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding
• Proven experience designing storage architectures and performing capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale
• Experience leading major storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs from planning through production execution
• Strong automation and software engineering skills using Python and/or Go, combined with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration frameworks such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible
• Deep expertise with advanced Ceph technologies including RGW Multisite, RBD Mirroring, CephFS at scale, BlueStore tuning, and erasure-coding optimization
• OpenStack storage architecture experience including Cinder, Swift, Manila, Nova, and Neutron integrations with Ceph
• Kubernetes storage expertise involving CSI drivers, stateful workloads, StorageClasses, and Rook-based Ceph deployments
• Experience evaluating and integrating large-scale storage technologies such as NetApp, Isilon, Pure, VAST, Weka, DDN, and AI/HPC storage platforms
• Contributions to the Ceph community through upstream development, code reviews, bug fixes, architecture discussions, or open-source storage initiatives