FreeBSD storage engineer at Axcient

We=E2=80=99re seeking an engineer who is passionate about storage technolog=
y
and operations to join our cloud engineering team, which manages over
100 PB of data globally. Join a small but elite international team
focused on delivering always-on, fast infrastructure that is the
stable foundation for our private cloud.

What we=E2=80=99re looking for:

* At-scale storage administration experience with FreeBSD and/or
Solaris/illumos.  You can describe tough situations you=E2=80=99ve faced an=
d
what you did and learned
* Understanding of the storage stack from hardware-level storage (SAS,
expanders, multipathing) to HBA to kernel/OS to filesystem to
protocols used to expose data to clients (iSCSI, NFS, SMB, etc.) to
guest VM performance
* Ability to troubleshoot kernel-level / hardware-level /
protocol-level availability, performance, or deadlock situations
  - E.g., using dtrace to diagnose kernel deadlocks or performance issues
  - E.g., troubleshooting disk failures that freeze up the SAS bus
  - E.g., understanding =E2=80=9Chotspots=E2=80=9D within a storage cloud, =
finding and
resolving bottlenecks
* Self-starter that is passionate about delivering secure, performant,
and low-latency storage
* Metrics driven, agile with an automation mentality
* Bonus points if you are an engineer who has used and/or contributed
to open source projects including:
  - Salt
  - FreeBSD
  - OpenZFS
  - illumos (or OpenSolaris)
  - Kubernetes
  - OpenEBS

The ideal candidate will eventually be able to work out of our
Smolensk Russia office, however Axcient will consider all qualified
remote-only candidates as well. We are seeking people who match our
values of take-it-own-it, reject mediocrity, be agile, do the right
thing, and team-to-win. If you think you are a good candidate based on
the above description please don=E2=80=99t hesitate to apply.