IT & Software

Software Engineer – Platform Storage

Ncounter

London · Greater London · United Kingdom

Overview

In this role you help build the storage backbone for a high-performance, globally distributed research and trading platform. You will design and evolve storage abstractions and orchestration services across hybrid on-prem and cloud infrastructure, enabling researchers and engineers to access massive datasets efficiently. You’ll work with cross-functional teams to optimize throughput, reliability, and data locality, shaping a scalable in-house storage platform with long-term impact.

Responsibilities
  • Build scalable storage and orchestration services across hybrid infrastructure environments
  • Design platform layers that provide seamless access across distributed storage technologies
  • Evaluate and integrate open-source and vendor storage tooling into a unified platform
  • Improve storage throughput, data locality and platform efficiency for research workloads
  • Collaborate closely with compute, networking and observability teams across the wider platform estate
  • Support troubleshooting, tuning and reliability engineering for production storage systems
Key requirements
  • Strong backend or systems engineering background with Go, Rust, C++ or Java
  • Experience building or supporting distributed systems at scale
  • Strong Linux knowledge and an interest in infrastructure engineering
  • Exposure to observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or ELK
  • Understanding of cloud and infrastructure automation, ideally AWS, GCP or Terraform
  • Any experience with Ceph, MinIO, JuiceFS, FUSE, RDMA, GPUDirect or DPDK would be highly beneficial
  • collaboration across cross-functional teams
  • problem-solving orientation
  • attention to reliability and performance
  • Go
  • Rust
  • C++

Reference: WJ-747_31188810

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