Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) - Hybrid Cloud Storage

About the role

You'll be one of the first hires on a team with a single mandate: find out how Qumulo breaks before our customers do. The platform manages exabytes of data for more than 1,100 customers across on-prem and every major cloud, and these are mission-critical workloads where a missed edge case becomes a customer's bad day. This is a test-centric SRE role for an engineer who thinks like a breaker.

Responsibilities

• Design and operationalize testing for new features: work out how customers will actually use them, how to scale-test them, and how to break them
• Automate the manual, repetitive testing our principal engineers run by hand today, using Python and our in-house frameworks on Jenkins and Argo
• BUILD a data-driven plan for which tests run, how often, and why, plus the framework to schedule and rerun them
• Troubleshoot build and test failures across VM instances and Qumulo-qualified hardware, from compile-time errors to integration failures
• Read cluster output and C error logs to tell a test problem from an infrastructure problem from a real bug
• SET up monitoring and alerting so problems surface early (we use OpenMetrics, Grafana, InfluxDB, and Prometheus alongside home-grown tooling)
• HELP set the quality bar for releases, including a real say in what ships
• TAKE part in an on-call rotation for the systems your team owns

Requirements

• 3+ years building and operating automated testing, validation, and/or certification for complex software systems
• Strong programming ability in C. Experience with Qumulo’s distributed file system, or parallel filesystems, would be a major plus
• A real breaker's instinct. You go looking for edge cases and ask "what happens if I do this?" before anyone asks you to
• A track record of building tests yourself, not just running test plans handed to you
• Hands-on experience across both on-premises infrastructure and cloud (AWS, GCP, or Azure), with a real grasp of where each one's limits are
• Working fluency in Linux (we run Ubuntu) and Python
• A data-driven approach to deciding what to test and how often
• Experience with orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform), containers, and Kubernetes
• Solid understanding of networks (routing, firewalls, security inspection devices, switch configuration) a plus
• Storage (IOPS, Latency, read/write patterns) or protocol experience (NFS, SMB, S3) a strong plus

Qualifications

• The annual pay range for the role is USD $140,000 - $210,000. Individual pay depends on various factors, such as role level, relevant experience, and skills.
• Benefits & Perks: Pre-IPO stock options, Flexible time-off policy, HSA and PPO health insurance options, Dental and Vision insurance, 401(k) plan, Choice of an ORCA card or parking subsidy