Staff Storage Engineer
Confirmed on the employer's own hiring board on Oct 30, 2026. First seen by Alion on Oct 28, 2026.
Location: Dallas, TX; San Francisco, CA; or New York, NY (onsite)
Pay: $220,000-$400,000 + bonus + equity
A high-growth AI infrastructure company needs a storage engineer to shape the data layer for its inference platform.
What you'll do
Design distributed file, object and block storage for AI workloads
Deploy and run high-performance parallel file systems
Analyze I/O patterns and plan capacity
Define durability, erasure coding, backup and DR
Benchmark, test failure modes and automate with Python and CI/CD
What you bring
8+ years designing large-scale distributed storage
Hands-on WEKA and/or VAST in AI or HPC environments
NVMe and NVMe-oF
Storage performance tuning and Linux storage internals
Python automation
Nice to have: GPUDirect Storage; RDMA/RoCEv2
Mural Group is recruiting for this role on behalf of a client. Apply here and a Mural recruiter will be in touch.