DevOps/Systems Engineer

Responsibilities

• Manage and orchestrate physical servers
• Design and deploy networking and peering (e.g., BGP routes)
• Manage hardware at remote data centers
• Monitor environments, servers, and applications for health, performance, and security
• 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

Must Haves

• Substantial experience in system 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 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

At Storj, People Really Matter

Our mission cannot be achieved without our talented people, so we provide meaningful professional engagement and a generous, comprehensive benefits package. Storj promotes empowerment and progress through company-wide and individualized training opportunities, proactive diversity efforts, and peer mentorship. Our comprehensive employee benefits include generous healthcare and insurance coverage, FSA and transportation reimbursement plans, a 401(k) plan, competitive equity, unlimited PTO, and six weeks of paid parental leave.

Storj is headquartered in Atlanta and 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 (optional in-person when travel is safe) for collaborative work and team building.

Storj Overview

Storj is pioneering decentralized cloud storage with the world's first decentralized cloud object storage network with enterprise SLAs. We make object storage secure, private, and more resilient than leading cloud storage providers. Our mission is to enable the decentralized future, and our vision is to be the storage layer for the decentralized internet.

Storj is starting an exciting new product direction to provide high quality interoperability between our decentralized storage network and network edge hosting providers. In this role, you will operationalize a global fleet of bare metal servers that peer directly with each locale’s network service providers. This role plays a key part in our new product direction and requires experience in managing servers and running services to maximize availability, redundancy, performance, and durability, while minimizing network latency to the barest of minimums.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion

At Storj Labs, 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:

Secure - We believe security and privacy in product, process, and habit is key to everything we do.

Together - We inspire, execute, and celebrate as one team, with a commitment to trust, inclusion, collaboration, and accountability.

Open - We’re committed to the free and open sharing of software, information, knowledge, and ideas.

Resolute - We have the courage to do the right thing, even if it is not the easy thing. We resolve always to treat others ethically, with empathy, understanding, and trust.

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

Different - We think differently, act differently, and always strive to make a difference.

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.