Principal Software Engineer - Storage
Company: Wasabi Technologies
Location: Washington
Posted on: June 24, 2025
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Job Description:
At Wasabi, we’re a proven collection of pioneers, visionaries
and disruptive doers. We see things differently than our
competitors, and we make our mark in the industry by challenging
the norm and delivering the unexpected and improbable. We’re a
fast-growing company taking the Cloud Storage industry by storm and
recognized as one of the best places to work in Boston. Wasabi hot
cloud storage is a new class and category of cloud storage,
breaking all traditional barriers and boundaries of storage with a
disruptive value proposition of being 1/5th the cost of AWS S3,
faster than the competition, with no fees for egress or API request
and delivered as a single-tier solution. Cloud storage has never
been so simple, so fast and so inexpensive. It’s all part of our
vision to make cloud storage the next great global utility, just
like electricity. Role Purpose: Wasabi Technologies Inc. is seeking
for a Principal Engineer – Storage to join our Software Development
team. In this role, you will use your knowledge of storage devices,
the Linux kernel/OS, filesystem and software development to help a
team dedicated to a highly reliable, secure, scalable and
innovative technology for Wasabis hot cloud storage service. The
Wasabi hot cloud storage service is an enterprise-grade public
cloud object storage service that consists of Wasabi-built and
Wasabi-optimized software that operates on leading-edge compute and
storage hardware. To be successful in this role, you should have
expertise in agile software development, be able to collaborate
with team members, and be a strategic problem-solver. In this
position, you should demonstrate excellent communication skills, an
ability to connect with other engineers and developers, and have a
solid foundation in software design. Responsibilities: o Design,
develop, test, deploy, maintain, and improve storage software. o
Contribute and drive idea generation for new storage capabilities
and bring them to fruition. o Write clean, efficient, and
maintainable code in addition to tests and documentation. o
Troubleshoot hardware and software, monitor, maintenance and
operation of a production environment. o Contribute to the
improvement of the storage team’s software and agile process.
Requirements : o 15 years of storage platforms experience. o Deep
understanding of HDD, SSD, disk enclosure and host adapter hardware
including SAS, NVME and fabric connectivity. o Expert in file
systems such as ZFS and WAFL, along with hands-on experience
working with Linux operating systems. o Experience developing and
deploying backend storage services in Go or C++. o Understanding of
modern API best practices (HTTP, REST, Swagger, gRPC). o
Familiarity with modern virtualization and containerization
technologies (virtual machines, Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and public
cloud environments (AWS, Azure, etc).
Keywords: Wasabi Technologies, Franconia , Principal Software Engineer - Storage, IT / Software / Systems , Washington, Virginia
