Senior ZFS Storage Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Title: Senior ZFS Storage Engineer - Remote / Telecommute

Job Location: San Francisco, CA

Job Type: Contract

Pay Range: $47.00hr - $52.00hr

Job Overview:

The candidate will be responsible for designing, scaling, and configuring enterprise-grade ZFS storage clusters to support demanding production workloads.

Responsibilities:

• Architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade ZFS storage clusters (OpenZFS / TrueNAS Enterprise / custom FreeBSD/Linux deployments) to support demanding production workloads.
• Configure, tune, and maintain storage pools (zpools), vdev layouts, datasets, ZIL/SLOG, and L2ARC to optimize for high-IOPS and bandwidth requirements.
• Monitor storage utilization, growth trends, and lifecycle management to proactively scale compute and capacity ahead of business demand.
• Conduct deep performance analysis and benchmarking; troubleshoot complex I/O bottlenecks across ZFS, kernel, network, and hardware layers.
• Implement robust backup, disaster recovery, and data retention strategies using native ZFS replication, snapshot schedules, send/receive pipelines, and scrub routines.
• Design and maintain multi-controller HA storage configurations and multipath I/O (MPIO) architectures.
• Demonstrate experience with ZFS pool recovery techniques, repairing degraded arrays, and managing hardware failures without data loss.
• Utilize expertise in enterprise protocols including NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF.
• Apply extensive experience with storage server hardware, SAS/SATA/NVMe topologies, HBAs, JBODs, and high-speed networking (10GbE 100GbE, InfiniBand, RDMA).

Requirements:

• 8+ years of hands-on experience in enterprise storage engineering and systems administration with core expertise in ZFS.
• Deep, hands-on expertise with ZFS / OpenZFS in production environments.
• Expert understanding of ZFS internals (vdev topologies, ARC management, ZIL/SLOG selection, dataset properties, record sizes, compression, deduplication, and snapshot lifecycle).

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• Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Plan
• Health Savings Account (HSA)
• Disability Insurance (Short-Term and Long-Term)
• Life and AD&D Insurance
• Paid Sick Leave (where required by applicable state or local law)
• Supplemental Insurance Plans
• Identity Theft Protection
• Pet Insurance
• Employee Wellness Programs
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Career Growth and Professional Development Opportunities