Staff Storage Engineer- Ceph

Staff Storage Engineer - Ceph at Index Exchange

About the Role

We’re looking for a Staff Operations Engineer – Ceph Storage to support our storage team in the Cloud Platform division. Our scale spans the globe and requires global efficiency and reliability, as every millisecond counts in our business.

What We’re Looking For

• Facilitator: You can relay information and ideas effectively within and across teams.
• Adaptable: You prioritize tasks amid competing scope and timelines in a fast‑moving industry.
• Technical: Strong foundation in Operations, and experience solving complex problems and building solutions (including CI/CD, real‑time monitoring, production issues, etc.).
• Rigorous: Your approach and solutions are thorough, scalable, and ironclad for massive, globally distributed systems that handle billions of transactions daily.

Here’s What You’ll Be Doing

• Design, build, and operate a highly scalable, performant and resilient storage layer that operates on a planet scale.
• Develop and maintain automation for logging, monitoring, and maintenance of the storage layer.
• Work with technologies such as Hadoop, Spark, Aerospike, Kafka, etc., to enhance and optimize existing systems.
• Participate in complex security system designs and mentor junior teammates.
• Act as a senior contributor who takes ownership of large projects and components.
• Champion improvements to processes and procedures for the team and division.
• Influence the team’s direction and foster accountability, trust, and focus on goals.
• Live the Index values and promote them internally and externally.

Here’s What You Need

• Experience building, maintaining, and troubleshooting open‑source distributed storage solutions such as Ceph and storage orchestrators such as Rook at scale.
• Experience with IaC and configuration management tools such as Salt, Ansible, Puppet or Terraform.
• Experience with storage‑level replication technologies.
• Strong experience with capacity planning, disaster recovery and monitoring.

Why You’ll Love Working Here

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision plans for you and your dependents.
• Paid time off, health days, and personal obligation days plus flexible work schedules.
• Competitive retirement matching plans.
• Equity packages.
• Generous parental leave for all parents.
• Annual well‑being allowance plus fitness discounts and group wellness activities.
• Commuter benefits and discounts where available.
• Employee assistance program.
• Mental health first aid program.
• One day of volunteer time off per year and a matching donation program.
• Bi‑weekly town halls and regular community‑led team events.
• Multiple resources for continuous learning.
• A workplace that supports a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment.

Equal Employment Opportunity

At Index Exchange, we believe that successful products are built by teams just as diverse as the audience who uses them. As such, we are committed to equal employment opportunities. We celebrate diversity of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. Additionally, we realize that diversity is deeper than any status or classification—diversity is the human experience.

Accessibility For Applicants With Disabilities

Index Exchange welcomes and encourages individuals with disabilities to apply to work with us. If you require an accommodation, please share the details of your request and how we can assist you. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure accommodation requests are met throughout the recruitment process.

Job Details

• Seniority level: Mid‑Senior level
• Employment type: Full‑time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet