Wasabi Technologies
Architect – Object Storage & Database Systems
United States of America · Senior
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About the role
- The Principal Architect - Object Storage & Database Systems is a senior hands-on technical leader responsible for shaping the architecture of Wasabi's storage platform.
- This role will predominantly focus on S3 core services and the Database roadmap, with a strategic architectural lens on their future direction.
Responsibilities
- Design and influence the architecture of large-scale object storage, database, metadata, and distributed systems supporting Wasabi's cloud platform.
- Serve as a technical expert in AWS S3 and S3-compatible object storage, including APIs, metadata design, consistency, scalability, durability, and performance.
- Build hands-on proofs of concept to validate new architectural ideas, then hand off the PoC code along with supporting technical analysis to the respective engineering teams, who own the path to production.
- Partner with senior engineers and architects to define long-term technical direction, review system designs, and move new ideas from concept through proof of concept and into production.
Requirements
- 10+ years of hands-on software engineering, database engineering, storage engineering, or distributed systems experience, including experience at a Principal, Staff, Architect, or similar senior technical level.
- Deep hands-on experience with AWS S3, S3-compatible object storage, or large-scale object storage platforms, with a strong understanding of how object storage works internally.
- Strong understanding of distributed systems concepts, including replication, consensus, fault tolerance, high availability, distributed coordination, eventual consistency, and strong consistency.
Skills
- Cloud storage has never been so simple, so fast and so inexpensive.
- Position: Principal Architect Object Storage & Database Systems.
- Architect - Object Storage & Database Systems - US and Canada.
Company info
- At Wasabi, we're a proven collection of pioneers, visionaries and disruptive doers.
- It's all part of our vision to make cloud storage the next great global utility, just like electricity.
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