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Staff Engineer, Distributed Storage and HPC & AI Infrastructure
Bangalore India
About The Role
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-to-day, you’ll optimize end-to-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.
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