- Full-time · Senior
- $119K–$231K per year
- 7+ years
Lead design, architecture, and operation of large‑scale Ceph storage clusters for GoDaddy’s global infrastructure, driving capacity planning, upgrades, automation, and incident resolution.
Compensation
Bay Area (Santa Clara, San Francisco) and Los Angeles: $154,000—$231,000 USD; Austin, D.C. Metro, CA (non-Bay Area), HI, IL, MA, NH, OR, VA, WA: $133,000—$199,000 USD; New York City Metro, Kirkland/Seattle: $140,800—$211,200 USD; All other US locations not previously listed: $118,500—$177,500 USD
Responsibilities
- Design and architect large‑scale production Ceph clusters, including CRUSH topology, failure‑domain modeling, replication and erasure‑coding strategies, storage hardware selection, and data placement architecture.
- Lead fleet‑wide capacity planning, performance modeling, and hardware qualification across 80+ production clusters comprising 20,000+ OSDs and 300 PB of raw storage.
- Own major platform upgrades and migration initiatives, including Ceph releases, OpenStack integrations, and large‑scale storage modernization efforts.
- Drive resolution of the most complex cross‑functional production incidents spanning storage, networking, virtualization, and compute systems.
- Establish automation, operational standards, and reliability practices that improve platform scalability, reduce toil, and increase engineering efficiency across the storage organization.
Requirements
- Nice to have: RGW Multisite
- Nice to have: RBD Mirroring
- Nice to have: BlueStore tuning
- Nice to have: erasure‑coding optimization