# Staff Software Engineer, Storage Platform

Hiring organization: [Relativity Space](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/relativity-space)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/cd2c225a-4b85-4f33-b7a4-dae004dbd4fc

Listed on Relativity Space's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Senior
- Location: Long Beach, CA
- Salary: 181000 – 271000 USD per year

## Summary

This role focuses on building a fault-tolerant storage platform for a space-based data center, handling custom Linux kernel drivers, ZFS pool architecture, and automated recovery systems that must survive years of radiation exposure in orbit. It suits experienced kernel engineers who combine deep storage systems knowledge with the ability to design and validate hardware-adjacent software for mission-critical environments.

_Our summary, not Relativity Space's wording._

## Skills named

Linux Kernel, PCI DSS, Yocto Project

## Required

- 5+ years writing Linux kernel code
- Driver development with PCI/PCIe devices, block storage, or interrupt-driven hardware
- Experience with storage systems: ZFS, RAID, NVMe, or high-throughput network storage
- Depth in filesystem internals, block layer/device management, or storage protocol implementation
- Strong OS internals knowledge: virtual memory, interrupt context, synchronization, I/O stack

## Nice to have

- Hardware-software boundary expertise: DMA coherency, MMIO, PCIe enumeration, cache behavior
- Data structures and systems reasoning for storage: Merkle trees, ring buffers, hash tables, radix trees
- Storage systems testing: fault injection, low-level tracing, crash dump analysis
- Software recovery design around storage hardware faults
- Embedded Linux build systems experience: Yocto or Buildroot
- Hardware lab experience: serial consoles, logic analyzers, PCIe debugging

Apply on Relativity Space's site: https://boards.greenhouse.io/relativity/jobs/8451321002?gh_jid=8451321002