Senior Manager, Cloud Storage Engineering

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. They are seeking a Senior Manager, Cloud Storage Engineering to lead the engineering and operations team responsible for Vultr's cloud storage portfolio, overseeing the design, deployment, and operation of storage services globally.

Responsibilities:

• Lead and grow a high-performing team of storage engineers and operators across multiple regions
• Own the technical delivery for Vultr's block, object, and file storage products across all performance tiers
• Drive architecture decisions for multi-tenant, multi-tier storage platforms serving diverse workload profiles
• Ensure five-nines availability, durability, and performance SLAs across the global storage fleet
• Integrate and operationalize third-party storage solutions as needed
• Optimize storage systems for AI and HPC workloads requiring extreme throughput and low latency
• Collaborate with product, infrastructure, and customer success teams to define storage offerings and SLAs
• Manage capacity planning, cost optimization, and vendor relationships across the storage stack

Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in storage engineering, with 3+ years in engineering management
• Deep expertise with Ceph and distributed storage architectures in production environments
• Experience building and operating multi-tenant cloud storage services at scale
• Strong understanding of block, object, and file storage protocols and performance characteristics
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with third-party enterprise storage platforms (DDN, VAST, Weka, NetApp) is a strong plus
• Knowledge of high-performance storage optimization techniques for AI and HPC workloads is a plus