Senior Systems Architect - Filesystems

Join to apply for the Senior Systems Architect - Filesystems role at Jobright.ai 2 days ago Be among the first 25 applicants Join to apply for the Senior Systems Architect - Filesystems role at Jobright.ai Hammerspace, Inc. delivers a Global Data Environment that connects users with their data and applications across various cloud infrastructures. They are seeking a Systems Architect to lead the design and development of next-generation filesystem and NFS solutions, while mentoring a high-performing team in a fast-paced startup environment. Responsibilities: Architect, design, and drive the development of highly scalable, robust, and performant filesystems and NFS implementations that align with our product roadmap and customer needs. Serve as the technical authority for filesystems and NFS, guiding critical decisions and ensuring the long-term health and innovation of our core storage solutions. Define and champion architectural blueprints, technical roadmaps, and best practices for our storage stack. Work closely with our CTO and other systems architects to define the large scale product architecture. Work with the component architects to solidify system designs, and drive projects to completion. Work with the QA system architect and component architects to define QA testing goals. Instill high code quality, maintainability and supportability practices in the team. Collaborate closely with product management, QA, and Customer Success to ensure seamless integration, deployment, and operational excellence. Write, review, and optimize high-performance code in C/C++ for our core filesystem and NFS components. Diagnose and resolve complex issues within filesystems, NFS protocols, and distributed storage systems. Lead performance optimization efforts to maximize throughput, latency, and resource utilization. Contribute directly to the codebase, leading by example and maintaining a deep understanding of our technical stack. Build, mentor, and grow a world-class team of passionate software engineers, fostering a culture of technical excellence, collaboration, and continuous learning. Define clear team goals, deliverables, and KPIs, ensuring timely and high-quality project execution. Provide direct technical guidance and mentorship, empowering engineers to develop their skills and careers. Play a key role in recruiting top-tier talent as we continue to scale our engineering organization. Qualifications: Required: 15+ years of hands-on software engineering experience, specializing in filesystems, storage solutions, or operating system kernels. Deep, proven expertise in Filesystems and NFS protocol development (NFSv3, NFSv4.x) and associated technologies. Strong understanding of distributed systems, concurrent programming, and low-level storage protocols. Exceptional proficiency in C/C++ for high-performance systems programming. Expert-level debugging, profiling, and performance tuning skills. At least 5+ years in a technical leadership role, guiding engineering teams and driving architectural decisions. Preferred: Experience building and scaling engineering teams in a startup environment. Familiarity with other storage protocols like SMB, object storage (S3), or block storage. Understanding of cloud-native architectures, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes), and CI/CD pipelines. Contributions to open-source projects related to filesystems or storage. Company: Hammerspace is a data platform that obliterates data access delays for AI and high-performance computing. Founded in 2018, the company is headquartered in San Mateo, California, USA, with a team of 51-200 employees. The company is currently Growth Stage. Hammerspace has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. 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