System Engineer (Object Storage)

Our growth is driving us to strengthen our Storage team to enhance, maintain, and scale our homegrown object storage platform. Your mission will be to collaborate with cross-functional teams to design, automate, and scale distributed storage systems in order to ensure the delivery of robust, high-performing solutions that meet operational and product requirements while supporting Scaleway’s massive customer data needs.

Responsibilities

Design, deploy and operate new features for Scaleway's in-house Object Storage platform; Contribute to the opening of new Availability Zones and Regions; Improve the performance, scalability and reliability of a storage infrastructure; Ensure the operational excellence of the platform through preventive and corrective maintenance; Participate in the Level 2 on-call rotation and troubleshoot complex production incidents; Collaborate with Data Center teams on hardware-related operations; Automate infrastructure deployment and configuration using Infrastructure-as-Code practices; Contribute to technical documentation and onboarding materials

Requirements

5+ years of experience operating large-scale Linux infrastructures; Strong understanding of high-load, distributed infrastructure (hardware, networking, low-level storage like SSDs/NVMe/RAID, or Ceph/S3 APIs); Solid experience with Linux system administration, networking and infrastructure automation; Ability to read and understand Go code to debug internal tooling, contribute to its evolution, or propose architectural improvements; Hands-on experience with Ansible, GitLab CI/CD and scripting; Good knowledge of monitoring tools such as Prometheus and Grafana; Curious and eager to continuously learn; Autonomous, proactive and solution-oriented; Rigorous, with strong attention to reliability and operational excellence; Strong communication and collaboration skills; Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving technical environment

Benefits

Hybrid work: up to 3 days of remote work per week; Spacious, dynamic offices near public transport with terraces and bike parking; Healthy meal service at headquarters and breakfast across all sites; Swile card for lunches for regional sites; Gym, daycare places, and discounted caring services; International environment with dozens of nationalities; Career and mobility opportunities within the Iliad Group