Senior Software Engineer – Storage Distributed Upstream

About the Team

The Storage Distributed Upstream team is laser-focused on advancing Ceph, the leading open-source distributed storage platform. Our mission is twofold: contribute directly to the upstream Ceph community and ensure it meets Bloomberg’s demanding requirements for scalability, reliability, and performance at petabyte scale. This is a rare opportunity to operate at the intersection of cutting-edge open source development and massive-scale infrastructure, helping shape the future of distributed storage while collaborating with world-class engineers inside and outside Bloomberg.

Why join us?

• Shape the Ceph roadmap by contributing code, ideas, and direction to one of the most critical open-source storage projects in the world.

• Make a global impact—your work will benefit not just Bloomberg, but thousands of organizations worldwide that rely on Ceph.
  

• Engage with the community—collaborate with upstream maintainers and developers, participate in design discussions, and drive real-world innovation.
  

• Gain deep systems expertise—from distributed consensus and erasure coding to storage policies and observability.
  

• Work with modern, open-source technologies like Ceph, S3, Kafka, Docker, and more.

What you’ll do

• Design, develop, and upstream features across Ceph’s core systems: RADOS, RBD, and RGW.
  

• Drive enhancements to reliability, performance, and operational tooling used across Bloomberg’s infrastructure.
  

• Contribute to the broader Ceph ecosystem through bug fixes, performance tuning, and upstream collaboration.
  

• Work closely with the Ceph community through code reviews, design proposals, working groups, and technical forums.
  

• Innovate in complex distributed domains such as data placement, erasure coding, geo-replication, and consistency models.

What we’re looking for

• 4+ years of software engineering experience, primarily in C++.
  

• Strong background in Linux systems programming, distributed systems, and algorithm design.
  

• A track record of successful collaboration, especially in open-source or cross-team environments.
  

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.