Lead Site Reliability Engineer - Ceph Storage

GoDaddy · United States

Posted about 3 months ago

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Is this posting real?

This role has been open: 80 days
Reposted: No
Salary listed: No
Ghost-job risk at GoDaddy: high
Hiring momentum: 63 roles opened in the last 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board: 2026-10-23

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About this role

As a Senior Ceph Storage Engineer at GoDaddy, you will be a key technical leader responsible for designing and architecting large-scale Ceph storage clusters, leading platform upgrades, and managing capacity planning across a vast infrastructure. You will tackle complex production incidents and establish operational standards to enhance scalability and efficiency. This role offers the chance to influence the future of a globally distributed storage platform while mentoring other engineers in advanced Ceph operations.

Our read on this posting3.2out of 5

benefits: 5/5
freshness: 1/5
career value: 5/5
role clarity: 5/5
pay transparency: 0/5

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What you need

7+ years designing, operating, and scaling distributed storage platforms, including hands-on ownership of production Ceph environments
Expert-level Ceph knowledge including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD architecture, MON/MGR/MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding
Proven experience designing storage architectures and performing capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale
Experience leading major storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs from planning through production execution
Strong automation and software engineering skills using Python and/or Go, combined with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration frameworks such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible

Nice to have

Deep expertise with advanced Ceph technologies including RGW Multisite, RBD Mirroring, CephFS at scale, BlueStore tuning, and erasure-coding optimization
OpenStack storage architecture experience including Cinder, Swift, Manila, Nova, and Neutron integrations with Ceph
Kubernetes storage expertise involving CSI drivers, stateful workloads, StorageClasses, and Rook-based Ceph deployments
Experience evaluating and integrating large-scale storage technologies such as NetApp, Isilon, Pure, VAST, Weka, DDN, and AI/HPC storage platforms
Contributions to the Ceph community through upstream development, code reviews, bug fixes, architecture discussions, or open-source storage initiatives

What you get

Competitive pay
Generous time off
Parental and wellness leave
Healthcare
Retirement savings program
Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, and vision insurance

Worth weighing

Remote position with occasional office visits for team events or meetings
Role involves significant responsibility in a complex and large-scale environment
No specific mention of a formal mentorship program, though mentoring is part of the role
Compensation varies significantly by location, which may affect salary negotiations

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