Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. GoDaddy is empowering everyday entrepreneurs around the world by providing the help and tools to succeed online. As a Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll serve as one of the principal technical leaders for GoDaddy's Ceph platform, designing storage clusters and leading major platform upgrades while mentoring other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design and architect large-scale production Ceph clusters, including CRUSH topology, failure-domain modeling, replication and erasure-coding strategies, storage hardware selection, and data placement architecture
- Lead fleet-wide capacity planning, performance modeling, and hardware qualification across 80+ production clusters comprising 20,000+ OSDs and 300 PB of raw storage
- Own major platform upgrades and migration initiatives, including Ceph releases, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale storage modernization efforts
- Drive resolution of the most complex cross-functional production incidents spanning storage, networking, virtualization, and compute systems
- Establish automation, operational standards, and reliability practices that improve platform scalability, reduce toil, and increase engineering efficiency across the storage organization
Skills
- 7+ years designing, operating, and scaling distributed storage platforms, including deep hands-on ownership of production Ceph environments
- Expert-level Ceph knowledge including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD architecture, MON/MGR/MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding
- Proven experience designing storage architectures and performing capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale
- Experience leading major storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs from planning through production execution
- Strong automation and software engineering skills using Python and/or Go, combined with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration frameworks such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible
- Deep expertise with advanced Ceph technologies including RGW Multisite, RBD Mirroring, CephFS at scale, BlueStore tuning, and erasure-coding optimization
- OpenStack storage architecture experience including Cinder, Swift, Manila, Nova, and Neutron integrations with Ceph
- Kubernetes storage expertise involving CSI drivers, stateful workloads, StorageClasses, and Rook-based Ceph deployments
- Experience evaluating and integrating large-scale storage technologies such as NetApp, Isilon, Pure, VAST, Weka, DDN, and AI/HPC storage platforms
- Contributions to the Ceph community through upstream development, code reviews, bug fixes, architecture discussions, or open-source storage initiatives
Benefits
- Competitive pay
- Generous time off
- Parental and wellness leave
- Healthcare
- Retirement savings program
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- A 401(k)-retirement plan
- Paid sick time
- Paid flexible time off
- Paid parental leave
- Life insurance
- Short- and long-term disability
- AD&D insurance
- Mental health or EAP programs
- Remote or hybrid work options
- Paid holidays
- Paid Wellness days
- Tuition assistance
- Adoption, surrogacy, and fertility benefits
- Dependent daycare and backup care benefits
- Employee stock purchase plan
- Financial education and advice
- Corporate bonus and/or equity awards, subject to the terms of applicable plans and individual eligibility
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