Principal Ceph Storage Engineer - Verda - Remote - Global

We are looking for a Principal Ceph Storage Engineer who is as skilled with people and prose as they are with placement groups. Running a fast-paced environment means we cannot afford "black box" wizards who keep the storage architecture in their heads. We need an articulate architect: someone with deep, long-term Ceph experience who treats documentation as a first-class citizen, loves mentoring, and can act as an open, collaborative bridge between our storage infrastructure and the rest of our engineering organization. Responsibilities include leading the architectural design of Ceph topologies, authoring comprehensive documentation, collaborating with compute, networking, and platform teams, mentoring engineers, leading zero-downtime upgrades, and troubleshooting complex recovery scenarios. Key requirements include 8+ years of infrastructure engineering, 5+ years focused on multi-petabyte Ceph clusters, excellent technical communication, collaboration skills, success running Ceph outside of cloud wrappers, and deep Linux storage mastery. Nice-to-haves include upstream Ceph contributions, experience with technical presentations, and architecting Ceph CSI plugins. The role is remote within the EU, full-time, permanent, starting as soon as possible.