Senior Engineer, Storage Services

About the role

We're hiring a Senior Engineer, Storage Services to provide senior technical leadership across our storage services group and shape the architecture, engineering direction, and technical quality of services spanning Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage. This is a senior individual contributor role within the Engineering organization, reporting to the VP Storage Engineer and working closely with the Director of Storage Services. You will partner across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage services integrate effectively into the broader Nscale platform, while helping translate strategy into clear technical direction. In this role, you'll define how critical storage services are designed, built, and evolved as part of Nscale's wider platform. Your impact will be felt through stronger engineering standards, better technical decision‑making, and the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high‑performing storage capabilities that support the future of AI infrastructure at Nscale.

Responsibilities

• Technical Leadership & Architecture: Provide technical leadership across the Storage Services group for Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage services. Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and high‑performance storage solutions aligned with Nscale's wider platform architecture. Guide key engineering decisions, review designs, and uphold high standards of technical quality across the storage estate. Drive architectural consistency, sound engineering practices, and strong technical governance across storage services.
• Strategy, Planning & Roadmap: Work closely with engineering leadership to translate storage strategy into clear technical plans, priorities, and implementation approaches. Influence the roadmap by clarifying technical trade‑offs, platform dependencies, and long‑term architectural considerations. Identify technical risks, scalability constraints, and operational weaknesses before they become larger issues.
• Cross‑Functional Engineering Partnership: Partner with engineers across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage services integrate effectively into the broader Nscale platform. Support teams with hands‑on guidance to solve complex engineering challenges. Contribute deep technical expertise where platform‑level coordination and alignment are required.
• Technical Excellence & Continuous Improvement: Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts, and design work for new storage capabilities, service improvements, and platform enhancements. Support the team in improving service reliability, observability, performance, supportability, and operational maturity. Contribute to major incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement where deep storage expertise is required. Stay current with developments in storage technologies and distributed systems to inform decisions on tools, architectures, and service evolution.
• Mentorship & Engineering Standards: Mentor and support engineers within the Storage Services group, helping raise technical capability