ZFS Storage Engineer

Employment Eligibility Statement Due to specific project and client requirements, this position is open to U.S. Citizens and U.S. Lawful Permanent Residents (s) . Sponsorship is not available at this time. Danta Technologies evaluates all candidates in compliance with the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) and EEOC guidelines . All hiring decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other protected characteristic. Job Title: Storage Engineer Zfs Location: San Francisco, CA / REMOTE Contract: Long term position Pay Rate: $43/hr on W2/Danta Technologies payroll (OR) $50/hr on C2C JOB DESCRIPTION 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). 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 Notes:- All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, religious creed, sex, national origin, ancestry, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, military and veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, gender, gender expression, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by local law, regulation, or ordinance. Danta offers a compensation package to all W2 employees that are competitive in the industry. It consists of competitive pay, the option to elect healthcare insurance (Dental, Medical, Vision), Major holidays and Paid sick leave as per state law. The rate/ Salary range is dependent on numerous factors including Qualification, Experience and Location. #ZR