Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre (Fully Remote)

Responsibilities

• Provide deep technical leadership across LustreFS subsystems including metadata, object storage, and LNet.
• Own complex root‑cause analysis for difficult customer and production issues across kernel, filesystem, and network layers.
• Lead design and implementation of new features, reliability improvements, and performance optimizations.

Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in distributed systems or Linux kernel development.
• Strong hands‑on expertise in LustreFS internals and production operations.
• Proficiency in C programming and Linux debugging tools like gdb, crash, and eBPF.

What You Will Work On

• Complex customer escalations and deep production issues involving failover, recovery, and performance regression.
• Architecture and implementation of new LustreFS capabilities for scale and resilience.
• Building AI‑enabled engineering workflows that accelerate triage, debugging, and design iteration.