Software Engineer - Distributed Block Storage (f/m/d)

Job Description

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider.

With services covering the full cloud infrastructure spectrum - from fast deploying virtual machines to S3 compatible object storage - Exoscale provides a simple and scalable experience in order to let its clients focus on their core business.

Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team based in Lausanne. Exoscale strives to create an environment with great working conditions and welcomes diverse applicants.

Exoscale is hiring a software engineer to join our storage team to work on the design and implementation of additional capabilities. You will be part of the effort to design, create and improve a new generation of our block storage offering, focusing on the scalability, reliability and throughput of the system while keeping durability as our main priority.

Block storage is a core component of the Exoscale catalog, enabling both customers and internal systems to gain greater flexibility on their storage usage. As part of our ongoing commitment to improving our platform, we are focused on significantly enhancing system performance and reducing overhead, aiming for improvements by multiple orders of magnitude.

Some Of The Challenges You Will Be Working On

• Design, improve and maintain our distributed block storage fabric
• Design, improve and maintain the orchestration of our block storage fabric
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues
• Participate in code & changes reviews
• Take part in the on-call rotation after a training period
  
  

Ideal Candidates Will

• Have experience with cloud infrastructure
• Have experience with designing, building and operating distributed systems
• Have experience with deterministic simulation testing
• Have a good understanding of underlying storage architectures
• Are familiar with Qemu's io interfaces and io integrations
• Are familiar with NVMe interfaces
• Have experience with Rust or C
• Have an eye for performance and monitoring
  
  

What We Offer

• Flexible working hours and working from home.
• Autonomous working conditions with a lot of freedom to create.
• Modern working atmosphere and centrally located office with great public transport connection
• Team events as well as training and further education.
  
  

Candidates who are not familiar with all the topics above but willing to learn are encouraged to apply.

We are looking forward to your application!

Requirements

rust go distributed systems cloud infrastructure nvme qemu