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Maxinsights is seeking a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to design and own a large-scale storage system that balances ease of use for business teams with relentless cost efficiency. You will shape the architecture, data organization, and long-term evolution of the storage platform as workloads grow.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design storage architecture around workload needs, defining data layout, partitioning, indexing, metadata, and access patterns
- Drive down total cost through tiering, lifecycle management, compression, deduplication, and reduced data movement while maintaining explicit durability and performance targets
- Build practical storage interfaces and self-service capabilities to make ingestion, discovery, access, and troubleshooting straightforward for users
- Align product, data, research, and infrastructure teams on requirements, ownership, and migration plans
- Lead adoption efforts and verify improvements in production
You will own the architecture end-to-end, working across teams to reconcile conflicting needs and build consensus without direct authority. This role requires both deep technical expertise and strong product sense to turn recurring business needs into simple, maintainable infrastructure.
Requirements:
- Deep experience designing and operating large-scale storage systems with sound judgment on consistency, replication, failure recovery, and capacity planning
- Hands-on ability to diagnose I/O bottlenecks and optimize data structures and read/write paths against representative workloads
- Strong cost discipline: ability to quantify storage, requests, retrieval, network transfer, and operational overhead, then validate savings without compromising agreed service levels
- Exceptional cross-team communication and collaboration skills; ability to navigate ambiguity and follow through on shared commitments
- Product sense and technical taste
- Experience delivering storage migrations or shared data services across teams is a plus
