Engineering Team Lead, Storage

Requirements

• 2+ years of real people leadership. You have managed engineers — hired, coached, given honest feedback, and grown them. Hands-on contribution matters here, but this role is judged on the team you build and lead, not just the code you write.

• You have built storage systems — object, block, or distributed filesystems — not just operated them. You know what happens when a disk dies mid-write and when a rebalance collides with a backup window.

• Deep distributed-systems fundamentals: durability, consistency, replication, erasure coding, failure domains.

• You have shipped production systems in Go. Systems engineers coming from C++ or Rust who are ready to write Go daily should still talk to us.

• You are comfortable with hardware reality: HDD, SSD, and NVMe tiers, and the economics of each.

• 8+ years building backend or infrastructure systems.

• You have partnered with product, design, and business teams to ship software that reached real users.

• A low-ego, team-first mindset. We care less about your exact domain and more about whether you are the kind of technical force other engineers want to work alongside.

What You'll Be Doing

• Stand up the storage stack — block, file, object — for training, sandbox, and general compute workloads.

• Make the build-vs-buy calls: deploy and harden vendor platforms where they win; design and write our own services in Go where they don't.

• Own the data plane: allocation, duplication, tiering, backup and recovery, S3-compatible APIs.

• Plan capacity across datacenters and across failure domains — petabytes, not terabytes.

• Build the team from zero: make the first hires, onboard and coach them, own performance and growth paths, and set the standard for ownership.

• Partner with Product Managers to shape the storage roadmap and make the technical and business tradeoffs.

Perks and Benefits

• We offer a comprehensive benefits package designed to support your well-being, growth, and work-life balance. Benefits vary by country and may include healthcare coverage, parental leave, retirement plans, relocation support, wellness programs, meal and transportation allowances, and other location-specific perks.