Staff Engineer, Distributed Storage and HPC & AI Infrastructure

职位说明

In this role, you will operate, scale, and optimize multi

petabyte storage systems purpose

built for the world’s largest AI training and inference workloads.

You’ll manage and scale high

performance parallel filesystems and object stores, evaluate and integrate cutting

edge technologies such as Vast, Weka, Ceph, and Lustre, and solve the complex engineering challenges of operating at extreme throughput, low

latency data paths, and massive cluster

scale storage operations.

You will also build Kubernetes

native storage operators and self

service platforms that provide automated provisioning, strict multi

tenancy, performance isolation, and quota enforcement at cluster scale.

day, you’ll optimize end

end data paths for 10

50 GB/s per node, design multi

tier caching architectures, implement intelligent prefetching and model

weight distribution, and tune parallel filesystems for AI workloads.

Responsibilities

Architect and implement the technical strategy and storage roadmap for Together AI, driving high-performance architectural decisions as we scale our GPU fleet.

Engineer and scale multi-petabyte AI/ML storage systems by integrating Vast, Weka, and Ceph while executing deep cost optimization through automated tiering and lifecycle policies.

Develop intelligent caching and tiered storage architectures to achieve extreme IOPS and cluster-wide throughput at GPU scale for training and inference workloads.

Tune storage isolation at the L2/L3 network layers to ensure secure, production-grade multi-tenancy for storage clients.

Code Kubernetes storage operators and controllers to enable automated provisioning, self-service abstractions, and quota enforcement.

Engineer end-to-end data paths to achieve 10+ GB/s per GPU node; architect multi-tier caching for model weights and datasets; tune parallel filesystems using advanced profiling; and scale storage infrastructure across thousands of nodes.

Optimize end-to-end data paths through advanced benchmarking and profiling, contributing high-impact code to open-source storage projects and internal tooling.

Requirements

8+ years in storage engineering, managing distributed storage at multi-petabyte scale

Proven track record deploying and operating high-performance storage for GPU/HPC clusters

Deep Kubernetes and cloud-native storage experience in production environments

Strong coding skills in Go and Python with demonstrated ability to build production-grade systems and tooling

BS/MS in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience

History of technical leadership: designing systems that significantly improved performance, reliability (99.999%+ uptime), or cost efficiency

Distributed Storage Systems: Deep expertise in either of Ceph, WekaFS, Lustre, Vast, GPFS, or similar parallel filesystems at multi-petabyte scale

Object Storage: Production experience with S3, MinIO, Ceph, or R2 including performance optimization and cost management

Kubernetes Storage: CSI drivers, StatefulSets, PersistentVolumes, storage operators, and custom controllers

Storage optimization for GPU workloads, RDMA/InfiniBand networking, parallel filesystem optimization (TB/s aggregate cluster throughput - line saturation)

Programming: Go and Python for automation, operators, and tooling

Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Ansible, Helm, GitOps (ArgoCD)

Linux Storage Stack: Advanced knowledge of filesystems (ext4, xfs), LVM, NVMe optimization, RAID configurations

Observability: Prometheus, Grafana, Thanos architecture and operations

Nice to Have Skills

GPU Direct Storage (GDS), NVMe-oF, storage networking, RDMA implementations

ML/AI storage patterns (model weights, checkpointing, dataset caching)

Storage benchmarking and profiling tools (fio, iperf3, iostat, blktrace).

About Together AI

Together AI, the AI Native Cloud, is purpose

built for AI engineers.

AI application developers get high

performance inference that scales reliably, fine

tuning and reinforcement learning for creating frontier

level specialized models, and pre

training at massive scale for fully custom intelligence, all around a marketplace of leading open models that teams can run, adapt, and own.

Trusted by Cursor, Decagon, ElevenLabs, Salesforce, and Zoom, Together serves 400+ trillion tokens a month.

Compensation

We offer competitive compensation, startup equity, health insurance, and other benefits, as well as flexibility in terms of remote work.

The US base salary range for this full

time position is: $250,000

$300,000 + equity + benefits.

Our salary ranges are determined by location, level and role.

Individual compensation will be determined by experience, skills, and job

related knowledge.

Equal Opportunity