Remote, United States 5d ago $102k – $148k
Linux Storage Engineering Jobs
Storage engineers design and operate the systems that reliably store petabytes of data. From enterprise SAN and NAS to cloud object storage and distributed file systems like Ceph and HDFS, storage engineering underpins every data-intensive application. Linux is the native platform for all major open-source storage stacks. Find storage roles at cloud providers, storage vendors, HPC centres, and data-intensive enterprises.
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Frequently Asked Questions
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Storage engineers design, deploy, and operate large-scale storage systems. They manage SAN/NAS infrastructure, deploy and tune distributed storage clusters (Ceph, HDFS, GlusterFS), implement data protection policies (RAID, snapshots, replication), optimise I/O performance, and plan capacity. In cloud environments they manage object storage at scale.
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Ceph is the dominant open-source distributed storage system, providing block, file, and object storage from a single cluster. It powers private clouds (OpenStack, Kubernetes persistent volumes) and is deployed at massive scale by cloud providers and research institutions. Deep Ceph expertise is highly valued and relatively scarce.
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Storage engineers must understand the Linux block layer (device mapper, LVM, multipath), file systems (XFS, ext4, Btrfs, ZFS), I/O schedulers, NVMe and NVMe-oF, iSCSI and Fibre Channel, and kernel storage subsystems. BPF-based I/O tracing (biolatency, ext4dist from BCC/bpftrace) is increasingly used for performance diagnosis.
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US storage engineers earn $110,000–$160,000 at mid to senior levels. Senior storage architects at cloud providers and financial institutions with petabyte-scale operations frequently earn more. The specialisation is less crowded than cloud or DevOps, meaning strong practitioners can negotiate from a position of scarcity.