Lead Software Engineer (Object Storage)

• Act as technical lead for a new object storage team while remaining substantially hands-on.
• Drive technical direction and key architectural decisions across the data path, durability, S3 and data movement.
• Design and build critical components, lead design and code reviews, and ensure solid automated testing and CI coverage.
• Own complex durability and data-placement work - including erasure coding - ensuring correctness under node loss, disk faults, partial writes and network partitions.
• Mentor engineers, grow technical ownership across the team, and partner with the manager on scope, sequencing and risk.

• 10+ years of software development in Go, Python, C, C++ or Rust (or equivalent systems-level expertise).
• Strong distributed-systems and high-performance storage-software design experience.
• Deep Linux: systems programming, debugging, profiling and performance analysis of complex systems.
• Solid grasp of concurrency, synchronisation, locking, async programming and memory management in performance-sensitive code.
• Experience with object storage or S3-compatible APIs, and demonstrated technical leadership of a team or significant workstream.

Nice to have

• Experience with the Linux I/O subsystem and networking.
• Knowledge of erasure coding principles.
• Experience with storage protocols and clustering design and development.
• Experience with REST, gRPC or Thrift.
• Familiarity with OCaml (parts of the existing codebase are written in it) - welcome, not required.

• Base salary up to $200,000, depending on experience.
• Medical, dental and vision coverage.
• Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts.
• Company-paid life, AD&D and disability insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan with employer contribution.
• Employee Assistance Program and wellness benefits.
• Hybrid working (3 Days), Boston
• ** Must have full working rights in the United States.