Storage Engineer Zfs
Job Title: Storage Engineer Zfs Location: San Francisco, CA Work Arrangement: REMOTE Employment Type: Contract
About the Role
We are seeking an experienced Storage Engineer Zfs to join our team. The successful candidate will be responsible for architecting, deploying, and managing enterprise-grade ZFS storage clusters (OpenZFS / TrueNAS Enterprise / custom FreeBSD/Linux deployments) to support demanding production workloads.
Key Responsibilities
Design , Scale & Configuration : Architect, deploy, and manage enterprise-grade ZFS storage clusters (OpenZFS / TrueNAS Enterprise / custom FreeBSD/Linux deployments) to support demanding production workloads. Storage Optimization: Configure, tune, and maintain storage pools (zpools), vdev layouts, datasets, ZIL/SLOG, and L2ARC to optimize for high-IOPS and bandwidth requirements. Capacity Planning: Monitor storage utilization, growth trends, and lifecycle management to proactively scale compute and capacity ahead of business demand. Performance Tuning: Conduct deep performance analysis and benchmarking; troubleshoot complex I/O bottlenecks across ZFS, kernel, network, and hardware layers. Data Integrity & Protection: Implement robust backup, disaster recovery, and data retention strategies using native ZFS replication, snapshot schedules, send/receive pipelines, and scrub routines. High Availability: Design and maintain multi-controller HA storage configurations and multipath I/O (MPIO) architectures. Data Recovery: Experience with ZFS pool recovery techniques, repairing degraded arrays, and managing hardware failures without data loss. Storage Protocols: Expertise in enterprise protocols including NFS, SMB/CIFS, iSCSI, and NVMe-oF. Hardware & Interconnects: Extensive experience with storage server hardware, SAS/SATA/NVMe topologies, HBAs, JBODs, and high-speed networking (10GbE–100GbE, InfiniBand, RDMA).
Required Qualifications
Core Expertise - 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) Experience level - 8+ Hands-on experience in enterprise storage engineering and systems administration with core expertise in ZFs Work Authorization Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States. Equal Employment Opportunity Themesoft Inc is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. We consider qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law.