Storage Performance Engineer

Vultr is a leading cloud infrastructure company dedicated to making high-performance cloud solutions accessible. The Storage Performance Engineer will focus on enhancing the performance of Vultr's cloud storage offerings, conducting benchmarking, and participating in the design of storage systems, particularly with Ceph.

Responsibilities:

• Primary responsibility is to improve the performance of Vultr’s high performance, cloud-based storage offerings from a customer-focused perspective
• Perform benchmarking and analysis of storage performance in various combinations of our storage products and GPU and Compute products
• Analyze and recommend performance tuning to improve storage performance across these benchmarks
• Continually enhance the Ceph-based Cloud Storage System in terms of stability, scalability, functionality, performance and cost
• Actively participate in the design and architecture decisions for Ceph-based Cloud Storage
• Develop automation framework and improvements for our Ceph-based Cloud Storage infrastructure
• Optimize existing metrics collection and alerting systems
• Contribute to our internal documentation and knowledge base

Requirements:

• In-depth experience with performance tuning of Ceph and Ceph clients and other scale-out distributed storage systems and clients
• Experience with tuning the performance of Linux networking, NFS & iSCSI clients, and the storage clients of proprietary storage solutions
• Fluency with Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu)
• Hands-on experience with virtualized platforms and clients (kvm, virtio-blk, virtio-fs)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (RKE2 or similar)
• 6+ years and extensive experience configuring, deploying, and managing distributed systems
• Effective Communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• The ability to manage work independently
• Strong collaboration skills