Storage Performance Engineer

About Vultr

Vultr is on a mission to make high-performance cloud infrastructure easy to use, affordable, and locally accessible for enterprises and AI innovators around the world. With 32 global cloud data center locations, Vultr is trusted by hundreds of thousands of active customers across 185 countries for its flexible, scalable, global Cloud Compute, Cloud GPU, Bare Metal, and Cloud Storage solutions. In December 2024 Vultr announced an equity financing at a $3.5 billion valuation. Founded by David Aninowsky and self-funded for over a decade, Vultr has grown to become the world’s largest privately-held cloud infrastructure company.

Vultr Cares

• 100% company-paid insurance premiums for employee medical, dental and vision plans.
• 401(k) plan that matches 100% up to 4%, with immediate vesting
• Professional Development Reimbursement of $2,500 each year
• 11 Holidays + Paid Time Off Accrual + Rollover Plan
• Commitment matters to Vultr! Increased PTO at 3 year and 10 year anniversary + 1 month paid sabbatical every 5 years + Anniversary Bonus each year
• $500 stipend for remote office setup in first year + $400 each following year
• Internet reimbursement up to $75 per month
• Gym membership reimbursement up to $50 per month
• Company paid Wellable subscription

Join Vultr

Vultr is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Storage Performance Engineer to drive the best possible storage performance both within Vultr Cloud Storage products and the systems consuming that storage. The ideal candidate is well versed in performance tuning and benchmarking methodologies with regard to both storage and systems. This is a highly visible role in a high-growth technology company, which will require extensive experience with Linux kernel, networking stack, and storage protocol performance tuning on the client side as well as design and performance of storage system architectures, particularly with Ceph. This is your opportunity to join our fast growing team and leave your mark on Vultr and the future of Cloud Infrastructure.

Key Responsibilities

• Primary responsibility is to improve the performance of Vultr’s high performance, cloud-based storage offerings from a customer-focused perspective
• Perform benchmarking and analysis of storage performance in various combinations of our storage products and GPU and Compute products. Analyze and recommend performance tuning to improve storage performance across these benchmarks.
• Continually enhance the Ceph-based Cloud Storage System in terms of stability, scalability, functionality, performance and cost
• Actively participate in the design and architecture decisions for Ceph-based Cloud Storage
• Develop automation framework and improvements for our Ceph-based Cloud Storage infrastructure
• Optimize existing metrics collection and alerting systems
• Contribute to our internal documentation and knowledge base

Qualifications

• In-depth experience with performance tuning of Ceph and Ceph clients and other scale-out distributed storage systems and clients. Experience with tuning the performance of Linux networking, NFS & iSCSI clients, and the storage clients of proprietary storage solutions
• Fluentcy with Linux (CentOS/RHEL/Debian/Ubuntu)
• Hands-on experience with virtualized platforms and clients (kvm, virtio-blk, virtio-fs)
• Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (RKE2 or similar)
• 6+ years and extensive experience configuring, deploying, and managing distributed systems
• Effective Communication skills
• Excellent time management skills
• The ability to manage work independently
• Strong collaboration skills

Key skills/competency

• Storage Performance Tuning
• Ceph Performance
• Distributed Systems
• Linux Kernel Tuning
• Networking Stack Optimization
• Performance Benchmarking
• Cloud Storage Architecture
• Kubernetes
• Virtualized Platforms
• System Performance Analysis