Site Reliability Engineer, GoDaddy

• 5+ years operating large-scale Linux infrastructure with significant experience supporting distributed storage systems in production environments
• 2+ years hands-on Ceph administration including OSD, MON, MDS, and RGW operations, CRUSH map management, pool design, placement groups, and performance troubleshooting
• Strong understanding of Linux internals, storage architecture, networking, filesystems, block devices, and performance analysis under production workloads
• Experience developing operational automation and tooling with Python, Shell, and configuration management platforms such as Ansible, SaltStack, Puppet, or Chef
• Proven incident response expertise, including production troubleshooting, root-cause analysis, postmortem creation, and implementation of durable corrective actions
• We encourage you to apply even if your experience or skillset doesn’t align perfectly with every requirement. We value a wide range of backgrounds and transferable skills, and we are excited to support learning and growth

Desirable

• GoDaddy's Global Storage Engineering team operates one of the largest Ceph environments in the industry, powering the object, block, and file storage platforms that underpin hosting, applications, internal infrastructure, and next-generation AI/HPC workloads
• If you're passionate about distributed systems, large-scale storage architecture, and solving complex reliability challenges, you'll work on infrastructure that few engineers ever experience
• At GoDaddy, Ceph isn't a side project — it's a critical platform
• Our environment spans 80+ production clusters, 20,000+ OSDs, and approximately 300 PB of raw storage capacity, supporting tens of billions of objects across multiple continents
• The scale demands deep technical expertise in storage architecture, automation, observability, and performance engineering
• As a Senior Site Reliability Engineer, you'll be a key technical owner of the platform, responsible for maintaining reliability, driving operational excellence, and influencing the future evolution of our storage ecosystem
• You'll tackle challenging production problems, develop automation that operates at massive scale, contribute to architectural decisions, and collaborate with some of the industry's most experienced Ceph engineers
• This is an opportunity to have direct impact on a storage platform that serves millions of customers worldwide
• Own the reliability, performance, scalability, and capacity of large-scale production Ceph environments supporting object, block, and file storage workloads (RADOS, RGW, RBD, CephFS)
• Diagnose and resolve complex distributed systems issues including recovery/backfill events, OSD instability, PG imbalance, storage latency, and RGW performance bottlenecks
• Design and build automation using Python, Shell, SaltStack, and Ansible to reduce operational toil and improve platform resilience at scale
• Define and improve observability for the storage platform through SLIs, SLOs, PromQL, LogQL, Grafana dashboards, and proactive alerting strategies
• Lead storage lifecycle initiatives including cluster expansions, hardware refreshes, software upgrades, OpenStack integrations, and large-scale migration projects