CAREERS

Overview

Storj is the leading provider of enterprise-grade, globally distributed cloud object storage, utilizing existing excess storage capacity from all over the world to offer better performance, security, and sustainability at up to 80% less cost than traditional cloud storage providers.

Storj is expanding into an exciting new product direction to provide our high quality decentralized storage network in more environments than ever before. In this role, you will shape the product while maintaining core principles around scalability and composability. This role plays a key part in our product direction and requires experience in running services within different configurations and shapes while maintaining availability, redundancy, performance, and durability.

Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and maintain fundamental features for the Storj network
• Participate in the management of multiple environments around the world
• Monitor environments, servers, and applications for health, performance, and security
• Analyze and improve performance throughout the technology stack
• Be on-call, able to respond in a timely fashion during off-hours, and serve as production owner
• Implement automation efforts around builds, deployment, and automatic scaling
• Work directly with the development and support teams to resolve issues

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in cloud administration, network and routing administration, and/or colocation administration
• Demonstrated ability to support DevOps engineers
• Experience with Linux, Go, Bash, Git, and CI/CD tools (e.g., Jenkins)
• Experience with orchestration frameworks such as Kubernetes, Nomad, Docker Swarm
• Experience with distributed systems with a focus on achieving high availability and fault tolerance
• Strong team player, quality-conscious, excellent analytical, written and verbal communication skills, and highly self-motivated
• Ability to analyze and monitor performance bottlenecks and key metrics to optimize software and system performance

Salary Range

$164,000 - $201,000 USD depending on geo adjust/location in the U.S.

At Storj, People Really Matter

Our mission is accomplished through the talent of our people, so we provide meaningful professional engagement and a comprehensive benefits package. Storj promotes empowerment and progress through company-wide and individualized training opportunities, proactive diversity efforts, and peer mentorship. Our employee benefits include generous healthcare and insurance coverage, paid parental leave, flexible paid time off, a 401(k) plan, and very competitive equity.

Storj has team members around the globe. As a remote-first company, we’ve built a culture based on transparency, inclusion, and open communication. Storj hosts regularly scheduled week-long gatherings (virtual and in-person) for collaborative work and team building.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

At Storj, we celebrate diversity and strive for an inclusive work culture. More than a statement on our careers page, these concepts are ingrained in our core values:

Sustainable - We act in a way that makes our product and company sustainable: economically, environmentally, and socially.

Trailblazing - We tackle big challenges with disruptive approaches. We are action and execution oriented. We deliver breakthrough results for our customers and company.

Open - We are committed to the free and open sharing of software, information, knowledge, experiences, perspectives, and ideas.

Respectful - We have a culture of respect, celebrating diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we work together with integrity, empathy, and accountability. We respect customer privacy and security, building trust. We want every individual to feel valued, represented, and empowered.

Empowered - We empower our users to control their data, our teammates to do great work, and our community to build economic value.

Joyful - We approach our mission with a sense of joy, derived from solving big challenges for our customers with a talented team in an environment that fosters creativity, collaboration, and fun.

We don’t make hiring or employment decisions on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sex, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other basis protected by applicable local, state, or federal law. We also consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records in a manner consistent with San Francisco’s Fair Chance Ordinance and similar local laws.