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Eqvilent

Senior Storage Engineer

Eqvilent · remote · senior · full-time · $115000–$195500 USD
tech Linuxstorage systemsautomationKubernetesdata pipelines
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Job description
We build and operate core infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting a high-frequency trading environment. Our storage platform underpins data processing, analytics, and compute-heavy workloads across the company. Its reliability and performance directly impact productivity, cost efficiency, and the ability of teams to deliver results. This role owns a critical part of the infrastructure where failures or degradation immediately translate into delays, wasted compute, and operational risk.
Responsibilities
- Ensuring storage is reliable, predictable, and not a bottleneck for any critical workloads across the company - Owning performance and stability of storage systems, and continuously improving them as data volumes and workloads grow - Designing and evolving data placement, resiliency, and lifecycle strategies to balance performance, cost, and reliability - Ensuring the platform behaves predictably during failures, maintenance, and scaling events - Improving how storage integrates with compute environments (GPU/HPC, Kubernetes, data pipelines) - Driving faster and more reliable incident detection, resolution, and prevention - Improving capacity planning to avoid emergency scaling and unexpected degradation - Continuously improving tooling, automation, and operational practices to make the platform easier to operate and scale
Requirements
- Experience operating large-scale storage systems in production (distributed or vendor-based) - Strong understanding of Linux, storage performance, and system behavior under load - Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive them to resolution - Practical approach to automation and system reliability - Ownership mindset — ability to take responsibility for critical systems and improve them over time ### Nice-to-have: - Experience working with high-performance or distributed storage systems - Understanding of networking in high-throughput environments - Experience in environments with high reliability and performance requirements (finance, HFT, etc.)
Conditions
- Great challenges with many opportunities to prove yourself - A welcoming group of highly qualified international professionals - Cutting-edge hardware and technology - Work remotely from anywhere in the world - Access any of our global offices anytime - Flexible schedule - 40 paid days off - Competitive salary
About Eqvilent
Eqvilent is a quantitative trading firm that provides liquidity on financial markets using cutting-edge technologies and advanced algorithms. It operates as a powerhouse in financial trading with entities in multiple jurisdictions, focusing on revolutionizing trading processes through technological innovations.
FinTech · 200-1000 · Dubai, UAE · Founded 2023 · https://www.eqvilent.com
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