Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer at GoDaddy

Setup: Remote
Type: Full-time
Level: Lead
Posted: Jul 7, 2026

Description

GoDaddy is seeking a Lead Senior Site Reliability Engineer to join their Global Storage Engineering team. This role involves designing and architecting large-scale Ceph clusters, leading major platform upgrades, driving capacity and hardware strategy, and establishing standards for scalable storage solutions. The successful candidate will mentor other engineers in advanced Ceph design and operations, focusing on distributed systems, storage architecture, and solving complex failure scenarios.

Required Skills

distributed storage platforms
production Ceph environments
CRUSH maps
placement groups
OSD architecture
MON/MGR/MDS subsystems
RGW
CephFS
RBD
replication
erasure coding
capacity planning
durability analysis
performance optimization
failure-domain modeling
automation
software engineering skills
Python
Go
Infrastructure-as-Code
orchestration frameworks

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: 7+ years designing,
operating
scaling distributed storage platforms, including deep hands-on ownership of production Ceph environments.
Preferred Qualifications: Expert-level Ceph knowledge including CRUSH maps, placement groups, OSD architecture, MON/MGR/MDS subsystems, RGW, CephFS, RBD, replication, and erasure coding.
Proven experience designing storage architectures and performing capacity planning, durability analysis, performance optimization, and failure-domain modeling at scale.
Experience leading major storage platform upgrades, migrations, and modernization programs from planning through production execution.
Strong automation and software engineering skills using Python and/or Go, combined with Infrastructure-as-Code and orchestration frameworks such as Terraform, SaltStack, and Ansible.