Software Engineer - Distributed Storage

Exoscale (Headquarters: Lausanne, Switzerland)

Cloud Storage Distributed Systems Go gRPC SQL Performance Monitoring Infrastructure Object Storage Block Storage Scalability Reliability Back End Engineer Data Engineer

Exoscale is the leading Swiss/European cloud service provider. Join a dynamic working environment with a cutting-edge distributed team. 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’ll be part of the effort to improve and scale our core distributed storage backend, focusing on the scalability, reliability and throughput of the system while keeping durability as our main priority. This backend is powering our object storage and block storage offerings, both core products of the Exoscale catalog.

Some of the challenges you will be working on:
* Maintain and improve our orchestration system: handling cluster visibility, health management and reconciliation
* Maintain and improve our data storage agent: handling customer requests and processing replication tasks
* 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 Go and gRPC, or equivalent
* Have experience working with SQL data stores
* Have a good understanding of the operating system storage landscape
* 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.