Senior Storage Engineer

Job Description

Job Title: Storage Engineer About Hydra Host Hydra Host is a Founders Fund-backed NVIDIA cloud partner building the infrastructure platform that powers AI at scale. We connect AI Factories – high-performance GPU data centers – with the teams that depend on them: research labs training foundation models, enterprises running production inference, and developer platforms demanding scalable compute capacity. Hydra Host is building the next-generation bare-metal GPU infrastructure network and marketplace under its Brokkr platform. The company enables independent data centers to monetize GPU capacity while providing enterprises with scalable, high-performance access to NVIDIA-based compute (e.g., H100, H200, B200, L40S, RTX 4090). As we expand our infrastructure capabilities, Hydra Host is now seeking a Storage Engineer to lead the architecture, development, and deployment of our next-generation AI/HPC storage platform. The role:As a Storage Engineer, you will be responsible for designing and building Hydra Host’s first production-grade storage platform from the ground up, supporting the company’s rapidly expanding network of bare-metal GPU clusters.You’ll own the architecture, technology selection, implementation, and evolution of this platform, defining how Hydra Host manages data for large-scale, distributed AI workloads across global data centers.This is a senior, hands-on role for an engineer who has built storage systems for GPU clusters before, with deep expertise in both block and object storage and a strong understanding of parallel file systems, performance optimization, and large-scale orchestration. Key Responsibilities· Define, architect, and implement Hydra Host’s first production storage platform tailored for bare-metal GPU clusters and AI/HPC workloads.· Lead all technical decisions around storage stack design, from hardware infrastructure to parallel file system orchestration and performance tuning.· Select, build, and maintain storage solutions spanni…