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 Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be a key technical owner of the platform, responsible for maintaining reliability, driving operational excellence, and influencing the future evolution of our storage ecosystem.
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of large-scale production Ceph environments supporting object, block, and file storage workloads (RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS)
- Diagnose and resolve complex distributed systems issues including recovery/backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW performance bottlenecks
- Design and build automation using Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience at scale
- Define and improve observability for the storage platform through SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting strategies
- Lead storage lifecycle initiatives including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migration projects
Skills
- 5+ years operating large-scale Linux infrastructure with significant experience supporting distributed storage systems in production environments
- 2+ years hands-on Ceph administration including OSD, MON, MDS, and RGW operations, CRUSH map management, pool design, placement groups, and performance troubleshooting
- Strong understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems, block devices, and performance analysis under production workloads
- Experience developing operational automation and tooling with Python, Shell, and configuration management platforms such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef
- Proven incident response expertise, including production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, postmortem creation, and implementation of durable corrective actions
- Advanced Ceph expertise across RGW Multisite, CephFS, RBD Mirroring, erasure coding, and large-scale cluster design
- Experience integrating storage platforms with OpenStack (Cinder, Nova, Neutron, Swift) or Kubernetes storage technologies (CSI, StorageClasses, Rook)
- Familiarity with modern observability platforms including Prometheus, Mimir, Loki, Grafana, and enterprise monitoring architectures
- Experience planning and executing petabyte-scale storage migrations, capacity expansion programs, and storage hardware lifecycle management
- Contributions to open-source infrastructure or storage projects and a passion for advancing distributed systems technologies
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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