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Staff Infrastructure Engineer (Storage)

Maxinsights · Santa Clara · On-site

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About Maxinsights

Powering generalist robotics and world models with multi-million-hour annotated egocentric data, hand tracking, upper-body/whole-body motion capture, tactile sensing, and simulation for OpenAI, Google DeepMind, Meta, Figure, 1X, Skild, Genesis AI, and Dyna... Backed by South Park Commons.

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We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to shape a storage system that is easy for business teams to use and relentlessly cost-efficient. You will own its architecture, data organization, and long-term evolution as workloads grow. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

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We are looking for a Staff Infrastructure Engineer to shape a storage system that is easy for business teams to use and relentlessly cost-efficient. You will own its architecture, data organization, and long-term evolution as workloads grow.

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, with explicit durability and performance targets.

Build practical storage interfaces and self-service capabilities; make ingestion, discovery, access, and troubleshooting straightforward for users.

Align product, data, research, and infrastructure teams on requirements, ownership, and migration plans; lead adoption and verify improvements in production.

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: you can quantify storage, requests,...

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