Staff Engineer, Storage Services

About Nscale

Nscale is the GPU cloud engineered for AI. We provide cost-effective, high-performance infrastructure for AI start-ups and large enterprise customers. Nscale enables AI-focused companies to achieve superior results by reducing the complexity of AI development. Our GPU cloud bolsters technical capabilities and directly supports strategic business outcomes, including cost management, rapid innovation, and environmental responsibility.

We thrive on a culture of relentless innovation, ownership, and accountability, where every team member takes pride in their work and drives it with excellence and urgency. As an Nscaler, you’ll build trust through openness and transparency, where everyone is inspired to do their best work. If you join our team, you’ll be contributing to building the technology that powers the future.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Staff Engineer, Storage Services to provide senior technical leadership across our storage services group and shape the architecture, engineering direction, and technical quality of services spanning Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage .

This is a senior individual contributor role within the Engineering organization, reporting to the VP Storage Engineer and working closely with the Director of Storage Services . You will partner across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage services integrate effectively into the broader Nscale platform, while helping translate strategy into clear technical direction.

In this role, you’ll define how critical storage services are designed, built, and evolved as part of Nscale’s wider platform. Your impact will be felt through stronger engineering standards, better technical decision-making, and the delivery of scalable, resilient, and high-performing storage capabilities that support the future of AI infrastructure at Nscale.

What you'll be doing

Technical Leadership & Architecture

• Provide technical leadership across the Storage Services group for Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage services.

• Lead the design of scalable, resilient, and high-performance storage solutions aligned with Nscale’s wider platform architecture.

• Guide key engineering decisions, review designs, and uphold high standards of technical quality across the storage estate.

• Drive architectural consistency, sound engineering practices, and strong technical governance across storage services.

Strategy, Planning & Roadmap Influence

• Work closely with engineering leadership to translate storage strategy into clear technical plans, priorities, and implementation approaches.

• Influence the roadmap by clarifying technical trade-offs, platform dependencies, and long-term architectural considerations.

• Identify technical risks, scalability constraints, and operational weaknesses before they become larger issues.

Cross-Functional Engineering Partnership

• Partner with engineers across platform, infrastructure, and product teams to ensure storage services integrate effectively into the broader Nscale platform.

• Support teams with hands-on guidance to solve complex engineering challenges.

• Contribute deep technical expertise where platform-level coordination and alignment are required.

Technical Excellence & Continuous Improvement

• Lead technical investigations, proof of concepts, and design work for new storage capabilities, service improvements, and platform enhancements.

• Support the team in improving service reliability, observability, performance, supportability, and operational maturity.

• Contribute to major incident resolution, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement where deep storage expertise is required.

• Stay current with developments in storage technologies and distributed systems to inform decisions on tools, architectures, and service evolution.

Mentorship & Engineering Standards

• Mentor and support engineers within the Storage Services group, helping raise technical capability across the team.

• Act as a senior technical authority by reviewing implementation approaches and guiding teams through difficult technical problems.

• Help set engineering standards that strengthen the quality and long-term maintainability of storage services.

KPIs

• Scalable, resilient storage architecture delivery

• Service reliability, observability, and performance improvements

• Reduction of technical risks and scalability constraints

• Technical standards uplift across the Storage Services group

About You

• Proven experience in a Principal Engineer, Staff Engineer, Lead Architect, or similar senior technical role within storage, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, or platform engineering.

• Deep expertise across modern storage architectures, including Block, File, Parallel, and Object storage systems.

• Strong track record of leading technical direction in complex engineering environments without formal people management authority.

• Demonstrable experience designing and operating large-scale, production-grade storage or infrastructure services.

• Deep understanding of distributed systems principles, including performance, availability, consistency, fault tolerance, and scalability.

• Experience working on platform-level services that support multiple products, teams, or customer use cases.

• Strong systems thinking with the ability to evaluate trade-offs across architecture, operations, cost, performance, and customer requirements.

• Hands-on engineering credibility with the ability to go deep into technical design, review implementation approaches, and guide teams through complex problems.

• Experience mentoring engineers and raising technical standards across a team or organisation.…

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