Senior Storage Engineer

Job requirements

• Seven or more years of hands-on storage engineering experience in production environments, with meaningful time spent operating storage at significant scale.

• A track record of deploying, operating and troubleshooting storage systems that serve demanding compute workloads.

• Experience working in or alongside data center environments; comfortable in the physical layer as well as the software layer.

• Prior exposure to the specific demands of AI training and inference I/O patterns is a strong advantage.

• Strong understanding of cloud platforms.

• Deep, practical knowledge of at least one major parallel or distributed file system used in high-performance environments.

• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to interact effectively with executive leadership, service providers and potentially members of the community

• Superior time management and multitasking skills with a strong sense of urgency

• Proven active listening and speaking skills

• Post secondary education in Computer Science or a related field.

Job responsibilities

• Design, build and commission high-performance storage systems that serve large GPU compute clusters, ensuring storage architecture meets the throughput and latency demands of AI training and inference workloads.

• Own the full operational lifecycle of storage infrastructure from initial deployment through day-to-day performance management, capacity growth and end-of-life planning.

• Manage and maintain storage networking fabrics connecting storage systems to GPU compute, ensuring the interconnect is never the bottleneck.

• Evaluate new storage hardware, software and approaches as the technology landscape evolves and IREN's footprint grows.

• Monitor storage system health, performance and capacity continuously; define meaningful thresholds and act on them before they become incidents.

• Tune storage systems for the specific I/O patterns of AI workloads and document what works.

• Plan and manage storage capacity proactively, working across teams to anticipate demand ahead of new cluster deployments.

• Maintain high availability across storage tiers; design and validate resilience mechanisms so that single points of failure are understood and mitigated.

• Diagnose and resolve storage incidents with urgency.

• Conduct thorough root cause analysis following significant incidents; produce clear write-ups and implement changes that prevent recurrence.

• Participate in on-call rotation to provide coverage for storage-related production issues; act as the escalation point for storage during major incidents.

• Work closely with technology and operations teams on new cluster builds, ensuring storage is ready and validated.

• Produce and maintain technical documentation that is accurate and current.

• Contribute to the technical evaluation of storage vendors and products; represent IREN's requirements clearly in vendor and partner conversations.

Job benefits

• Total Compensation package may be inclusive of annual incentive bonus, equity (long-term incentive).

• Relocation or Living-out-allowance / per diem (as appliable and based on successful candidate circumstances)

• 100% company paid health insurance premiums(medical, dental, and vision)for employees, 75% company paid coverage for dependents

• Company-paid short-term and long-term disability insurance

• Voluntary life, critical illness, and accident coverage available

• Health Savings Accounts (HSA) – when combined with the High Deductible Health Plan

• Employee Assistance Program and wellness resources

• 401(k) retirement plan with company match

• Access to financial planning and legal services

• Paid Time Off (PTO) and paid holidays

• Internal skills training and advancement pathways

• Professional development to support certifications, continuing education, or role related training

• Company events and team-building activities