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Crusoe

Senior Production Engineer, Storage

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

$170/hr

You will drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms. Collaborating closely with storage engineers, you will ...

Crusoe

Senior Production Engineer, Storage

Sunnyvale, CA · On-site

$170K/yr

You will drive reliability initiatives focused on data replication, encryption, backup and restore strategies, and robust failover mechanisms. Collaborating closely with storage engineers, you will ...

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As of Sep 11, 2026, the average hourly pay for data storage engineer in California is $55.47, according to ZipRecruiter salary data. Most workers in this role earn between $46.01 and $65.48 per hour, depending on experience, location, and employer.

What is a data storage engineer?

A Data Storage Engineer is responsible for designing, implementing, and managing data storage solutions to ensure efficient, secure, and scalable data access. They work with technologies like SAN, NAS, cloud storage, and backup systems to optimize data performance and availability. Their role includes troubleshooting storage issues, maintaining data integrity, and collaborating with IT teams to support business needs.

What are the key skills and qualifications needed to thrive as a data storage engineer?

To thrive as a Data Storage Engineer, you need a deep understanding of storage architectures (SAN, NAS, DAS), data management, and backup and recovery strategies, typically supported by a degree in computer science or a related field. Experience with enterprise storage systems (such as NetApp, EMC, or Dell), storage networking protocols, and certifications like SNIA or vendor-specific credentials is highly valued. Strong problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and effective communication are key soft skills for excelling in this role. These abilities ensure the reliable management, security, and availability of critical data assets for organizations.

What are common challenges data storage engineers face, and how do they typically address them?

Data Storage Engineers often encounter challenges such as managing rapidly growing data volumes, ensuring high availability, and implementing robust backup and disaster recovery solutions. To overcome these, they proactively monitor storage environments, optimize configurations, and stay updated on the latest storage technologies and best practices. Collaboration with IT, network, and security teams is essential to address performance issues, data migrations, and system upgrades. By balancing immediate technical needs with long-term scalability and security, they help organizations safeguard and efficiently utilize their data resources.

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Infographic showing various Data Storage Engineer job openings in California as of August 2026, with employment types broken down into 1% As Needed, 88% Full Time, 9% Part Time, and 2% Contract. Highlights an 85% Physical, 4% Hybrid, and 11% Remote job distribution, with an average salary of $115,385 per year, or $55.5 per hour.

Storage Platform Engineer

Oakland, CA • On-site

Pacific Gas and Electric Company
Utilities • 10K+ employees
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$49.04 - $77.88/hr

Full-time

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Pacific Gas and Electric Company rating

9.0

Company rating: 9.0 out of 10

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Job description

Requisition ID # 174345
Job Category: Engineering / Science
Job Level: Individual Contributor
Business Unit: Technology & Security
Work Type: Hybrid
Job Location: Oakland
Department Overview
Technology & Security delivers secure, resilient, and scalable enterprise platforms that support critical business applications, infrastructure services, cloud operations, automation, and emerging technology enablement.
Position Summary
The Storage Platform Engineer (SPE) builds and supports modern data infrastructure that enables advanced business capabilities across AWS, Azure, and on premise. The SPE manages cloud storage services, including AWS (S3, EBS, EFS, FSx), Azure (Blob Storage, Azure Files, Managed Disks, Data Lake Storage), and Azure Local (Storage Spaces Direct, Azure Managed Disks). The role also supports PG&E enterprise block and file storage platforms used for mission-critical, high-performance, and file-based workloads, including Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerFlex, Dell PowerStore, DellUnity 380F, IBM FlashSystem, IBM SVC, Elastic Cloud Storage, Power Vault Storage, Cisco MDS SAN fabric technologies, and Dell PowerScale/Isilon NAS. The role focuses on designing reliable storage pipelines and storage structures that support analytics, AI, and machine learning workloads. The SPE also integrates AI capabilities into storage platforms to improve automation, optimization, and predictive maintenance.
The role includes developing AI-driven workflows that support storage maintenance and performance tuning. Infrastructure provisioning for storage resources is managed through Terraform, including multi-cloud resource provisioning, lifecycle policies, encryption, replication, and access control as code. Deployment automation is implemented through Azure DevOps pipelines, including storage provisioning, backup validation, and environment promotion from DEV to PROD.
PG&E is providing the hourly rate range that the company in good faith believes it might pay for this position at the time of the job posting. This compensation range is specific to the locality of the job. The actual hourly rate paid to an individual will be based on multiple factors, including, but not limited to, specific skills, education, licenses or certifications, experience, market value, geographic location, and internal equity. This job is also eligible to participate in PG&E's discretionary incentive compensation programs.
The hourly rate for this position ranges from $49.04 to $77.88.
This position is hybrid, working from your remote office and 1-2 days per week at our Oakland Headquarters based on business need. The assigned work location will be within the PG&E Service Territory.
Job Responsibilities
  • Administer, configure, and support enterprise storage platforms across on-premises and cloud environments, including SAN, NAS, object storage, software-defined storage, AWS storage services, Azure storage services, and Azure Local storage capabilities.
  • Support PG&E-approved block/SAN storage platforms and related fabric technologies, including Dell PowerMax, Dell PowerFlex, Dell PowerStore, IBM FlashSystem, IBM SVC, AWS Elastic Block Store, and Cisco MDS SAN switches, ensuring alignment with enterprise storage standards, lifecycle plans, and workload performance requirements.
  • Administer and support PG&E-approved NAS/file storage platforms, including Dell PowerScale/Isilon and related OneFS capabilities such as SyncIQ, SmartConnect, SmartQuotas, SnapshotIQ, SmartPools, NFS exports, SMB/CIFS shares, access zones, replication, and file-system migration activities.
  • Provision, expand, reclaim, and optimize storage resources to support application, database, virtual infrastructure, file services, analytics, and business continuity requirements.
  • Monitor storage health, capacity, utilization, latency, throughput, IOPS, replication status, SAN fabric status, predictive alerts, and service availability using enterprise storage management and AIOps tools such as Cisco NDFC, IBM Storage Insights, Dell InsightIQ, Dell AIOps, and Dell Secure Connect Gateway.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve storage incidents across arrays, fabrics, file systems, cloud storage accounts, managed disks, snapshots, replication services, backup dependencies, and connectivity paths.
  • Partner with application, database, compute, network, cybersecurity, cloud, and vendor teams to analyze requirements, resolve performance issues, support deployments, and improve storage service reliability.
  • Implement storage protection capabilities, including snapshots, replication, cloning, encryption, retention policies, immutable storage, and recovery validation to support disaster recovery and ransomware resilience.
  • Implement and maintain storage security controls across on-premises and cloud platforms, including role-based access control, least-privilege permissions, encryption at rest and in transit, secure key management, network segmentation, private endpoints, and secure storage configuration standards.
  • Partner with cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, and audit teams to support vulnerability remediation, access reviews, logging, monitoring, policy enforcement, data classification, retention requirements, and regulatory compliance for storage services.
  • Develop and maintain automation, scripts, infrastructure-as-code modules, and reusable deployment patterns for storage provisioning, monitoring, lifecycle policies, replication, access controls, and environment promotion.
  • Plan and execute storage lifecycle activities, including firmware/software upgrades, hardware refreshes, platform migrations, end-of-service-life remediation, capacity forecasting, cost optimization, and asset inventory validation.
  • Support migration from legacy or on-premises storage platforms to cloud-native and hybrid storage architectures, including assessment, dependency mapping, cutover planning, validation, rollback planning, and post-migration optimization.

Qualifications
Minimum:
  • Bachelor's degree in computer science, job-related discipline, or equivalent experience.
  • 2 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, systems administration, cloud operations, or related Information Technology functions.
  • 1 year of experience supporting cloud technologies, cloud services, infrastructure automation, or cloud-based operating environments.
  • AWS Certified Data Engineer or Azure Data Engineer or equivalent cloud platform certification

Desired:
  • 3 years of experience with storage technologies
  • Experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment
  • Knowledge of cloud technologies and services, including EC2, Lambda, Terraform, S3, OCI, and CI/CD, and containers
  • Experience with storage, databases, OS, virtualization, and backup technologies
  • Understanding of Agile/Scrum principles and team-based delivery practices
  • Knowledge of continuous integration and continuous deployment practices and tools
  • Experience using storage monitoring, management, and AIOps tools such as Cisco NDFC, IBM Storage Insights, Dell InsightIQ, Dell AIOps, and Dell Secure Connect Gateway
  • Understanding of the AI development life cycle
  • Understanding of machine learning concepts, platforms, and operational workflows
  • Ability to deliver work in sprints and collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams

Purpose, Virtues and Stands
Our Purpose explains "why" we exist:
  • Delivering for our hometowns
  • Serving our planet
  • Leading with love

Our Virtues capture "who" we need to be:
  • Trustworthy
  • Empathetic
  • Curious
  • Tenacious
  • Nimble
  • Owners

Our Stands are "what" we will achieve together:
  • Everyone and everything is always safe
  • Catastrophic wildfires shall stop
  • It is enjoyable to work with and for PG&E
  • Clean and resilient energy for all
  • Our work shall create prosperity for all customers and investors

More About Our Company
EEO
Pacific Gas and Electric Company is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer that actively pursues and hires a workforce that reflects the hometowns we serve. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, religion, physical or mental disability status, medical condition, protected veteran status, marital status, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information or any other factor that is not related to the job.
Employee Privacy Notice The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) goes into effect on January 1, 2020. CCPA grants new and far-reaching privacy rights to all California residents. The law also entitles job applicants, employees and non-employee workers to be notified of what personal information PG&E collects and for what purpose. The Employee Privacy Notice can be accessed through the following link: Employee Privacy Notice
PG&E will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records for employment in a manner consistent with all state and local laws.

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