About

Qumulo is a Seattle-based enterprise data storage startup. We believe that storage should be simple, scalable, and efficient. Formed in 2012 by leaders from Isilon Systems, Adobe, and Wily Technology, Qumulo is reimagining enterprise storage.

Culture

Qumulo is about building fantastic products, that people love, with friends.

Storage is fascinating. Many of our employees say that working on storage has been the most intellectually stimulating work experience of their lives. At Qumulo, distributed systems, ACID properties, and making complex concepts and systems easy are all in a day's work.

We try hard to work smarter. To build a winning startup you have to work hard; but you don't have to work 80 hours a week. We deliver products with breathtaking speed by being thoughtful about what we do, leaving time for the rest of life.

We build our product in an iterative, market-driven way, with our customers being our center of gravity.

We work better with friends. We believe we work better when we get to know the people we work with, and when we work with reasonable, pleasant, but driven people. Qumulo has a friendly and respectful team that works hard and plays hard.

Team

Peter Godman, CEO, brings 20 years of industry systems experience to Qumulo. As VP of Engineering and CEO of Corensic, Peter brought the world's first thin-hypervisor based product to market. As Director of Software Engineering at Isilon, he led development of several major releases of Isilon's award-winning OneFS distributed filesystem and was inventor of 18 patented technologies. Peter studied math and computer science at MIT.

Before joining Qumulo, Aaron Passey, CTO, was the Chief Technology Officer at Clustrix producing a true scale-out OLTP relational database. Previously, Aaron was the chief architect for Isilon Systems, where he oversaw the technical direction of the product and was named as an inventor on 33 patents. Prior to Isilon, Aaron designed code for the I/O subsystem of Cray super computers. Aaron earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the California Institute of Technology.

Neal Fachan, Vice President of Engineering, brings 15 years of systems software experience to Qumulo. At Amazon Web Services, Neal designed and led development of advanced database technologies. Prior to Amazon, Neal was Distinguished Engineer at Isilon, where he provided technical vision for Isilon's award-winning OneFS clustered file system, resulting in more than thirty patented technologies. Prior to Isilon, Neal worked in the Third Market group at D. E. Shaw. Neal holds a degree in Math and Computer Science from UNM.

Jeff Cobb, VP of Product Management, is an accomplished product and technology leader. Prior to Qumulo, Jeff was SVP of Strategy and a Distinguished Engineer at CA Technologies. As Chief Scientist at Wily Technology, the application performance management pioneer, Jeff was the architect of the flagship product Introscope. Jeff built a Java virtual machine at Connectix, and designed runtime architecture for the MacOS at Apple. Jeff holds an A.B. from Dartmouth College.

Careers

If you build great products...

Data storage has to work. "Mostly right" has no place in systems software development. If you're someone used to making code that just works, and works fast, in C and Python, consider joining our team.

Qumulo systems software developers create reliable code that solves hard, interesting, real-world problems. We employ distributed systems theory, database theory, protocol analysis and design, and performance measurement and optimization in our quest to build reliable, useful systems.

Qumulo engineering is highly customer oriented. We use an agile process, only building things that people tell us they want, shipping systems with new software every two weeks. Qumulo systems engineers get feedback on the code they've written a few weeks after it's written, rather than months or years later.

Qumulo builds physical appliances that users desperately need in a $12b marketplace. Our world-class storage and systems team builds the highest-quality, fastest, and most usable storage systems on the planet.

Qualifications

  • Effective storage systems engineering draws from many areas of computer science. You should have a demonstrated interest in and facility with distributed systems, data structure, algorithms, or database concepts
  • Facility with C or C++ and a higher level language like Python
  • Experience with networking concepts and protocols
  • Experience with security, authentication, and identity issues
  • Willingness to think deeply about a complex problem domain
  • Comfort with or interest in agile development process and test driven development
  • BS EE/CS or equivalent experience.

Qumulo front-end web developers craft beautiful, intuitive interfaces that make it easy to use our product from any browser on any device. You will work closely with design and product management to create user experiences that stand out for their simplicity and usefulness. You’ll be part of a small team, where everything you work on has real impact.

Qumulo engineering is highly customer oriented. We use an agile process, only building things that people tell us they want, shipping systems with new software every two weeks. Qumulo systems engineers get feedback on the code they've written a few weeks after it's written, rather than months or years later.

Our modern, responsive HTML5 web application uses the latest technologies: Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone, RequireJS, jQuery, LESS, Tornado, Node.js, Express, and Jade. We leverage Jasmine and Python test frameworks to ensure high quality in everything we create.

Qualifications

  • Professional experience writing modern JavaScript for scalable web applications
  • Strong design aesthetic and attention to detail - you think every pixel matters
  • Interest in continually improving your skills and learning new technologies
  • Passion for taming complexity and creating usable interfaces
  • BS EE/CS or equivalent experience.

Qumulo engineering creates reliable code that solves hard, interesting, real-world problems. We are highly customer-oriented. We use an agile process, only building things that people tell us they want, and shipping systems with new software every two weeks. We get feedback on our code a few weeks after it's written, rather than months or years later. The bedrock for such an agile approach is a solid, well-tested code base.

Qumulo needs a Scrum Master to work as part of our agile team to produce working software and hardware. You will serve as Scrum coach to the team and work within the broader organization to promote and improve the practice. You will provide leadership in terms of process improvement, best practices, identifying and resolving technical debt, organizational impediments and individual team behaviors.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Promote and protect the Scrum process
  • Facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, demos and retrospectives
  • Assist the product owner with keeping the backlog groomed
  • Ensure cross-team coordination
  • Reach out to the larger company network for impediment removal
  • Maintain relevant metrics that help the team see how they are doing
  • Track process improvement initiatives identified in the retrospective and other forums
  • Liaise between the developers, testers and User Experience/Visual Designers and foster better communication between the disciplines
  • Act as a project manager when necessary and take responsibility for managing dependencies between your team and third parties or between your team and other Scrum teams

Qualifications

  • Certified Scrum Master / Scrum Practitioner
  • At least three years experience working in an agile environment, preferably in a variety of situations

Qumulo engineering creates reliable code that solves hard, interesting, real-world problems. We are highly customer-oriented. We use an agile process, only building things that people tell us they want, and shipping systems with new software every two weeks. We get feedback on our code a few weeks after it's written, rather than months or years later. The bedrock for such an agile approach is a solid, well-tested code base.

Qumulo builds physical appliances that users desperately need in a $12b marketplace. Our world-class storage and systems team builds the highest-quality, fastest, and most usable storage systems on the planet.

Qumulo needs a Senior Test Architect to help us design and write high-quality automated tests. Qumulo uses an agile development methodology, so you will work in a small, cross-functional engineering team with software development engineers and user-interaction designers. Software development engineers are responsible for writing all unit tests. You will be be responsible for higher-level testing areas such as system, performance, and compliance.

Qualifications

  • Facility with Python
  • Preferably some experience with a lower-level language such as C or C++
  • Experience with networking concepts, protocols, and tools
  • Experience with security, authentication, and identity issues
  • Willingness to think deeply about a complex problem domain
  • Comfort with or interest in agile development process and test driven development

Qumulo builds appliances that users desperately need in a $12b marketplace. Our world-class storage and systems team builds the highest-quality, fastest, and most usable storage systems on the planet. Qumulo is looking for an experienced hardware engineer with knowledge of industry trends and cutting edge technologies who can take commodity x86 servers and storage components and build powerful, energy efficient, highly scalable, and highly serviceable storage appliances.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Assist with hardware selection, qualification and validation efforts for our storage platform
  • Assist in formal certification (uL, CE, FCC, etc.) of enterprise storage products
  • Develop, maintain and enhance testing equipment and test software as new requirements become available
  • Maintain current knowledge of product environments, applications and usage scenarios
  • Assist in the selection of components to be included in the products we sell

Qualifications

  • Experience working with OEMs in a build-to-order environment
  • Knowledge of programming and writing scripts required
  • Experience with modern x86 server architectures
  • Environmental testing experience preferred
  • Network testing experience preferred
  • Storage experience preferred
  • Good verbal communication and collaboration skills

If you love usability...

Qumulo creates the easiest-to-use storage systems in the world. Easy is hard in user interface design. If you're artistic, driven, and believe that by better connecting humans and machines you can make the world better, contact us to get started.

Qumulo Presentation Layer Developers craft beautiful, useable, and intuitive interfaces that are a pleasure to use from any browser or any device. This role bridges the creative (UX design) and technical (engineering) aspects of project delivery. To achieve this integrated approach, you must have a fundamental understanding of the creative aesthetic while implementing technically across a variety of platforms and frameworks. You’ll be responsible for all aspects of the presentation layer development for including all project related browser, mobile devices, and server technologies responsible for rendering the user experience.

Our modern, responsive HTML5 web application uses the latest technologies: Twitter Bootstrap, Backbone, RequireJS, jQuery, D3, LESS, Tornado, Node.js. We leverage Jasmine and Python test frameworks to ensure high quality in everything we create. You will be working directly with senior UX Designers and Engineers, transforming real user stories into pixel-perfect UI via our agile process.

You will almost certainly have

  • A strong design aesthetic and attention to detail - you think every pixel matters
  • Extensive experience in CSS and HTML creating cross-browser applications
  • Moderate experience with JavaScript
  • An understanding of responsive design and how to leverage CSS3 and media queries to create responsive designs
  • Experience structuring web sites and applications for optimal performance
  • An ability to incorporate UX design assets into the product
  • An ability to create interactive prototypes from initial sketches to validate designs and flows

Bonus if you also have these skills:

  • Experience with information architecture
  • Experience with Adobe Creative Suite (or other tools like Axure)
  • Experience with information architecture

Qumulo is an early-stage startup in downtown Seattle. Great UX from the very beginning is the foundation of Qumulo's success. We are looking for an User Experience Designer to join our team. We are a true UX lead culture and we practice Lean UX: think, iterate, make, check.

You will work on all aspects of the end-to-end user experience; ranging from, but not limited to, user research, information architecture, user flows, ui/interaction design, big data visualization, usability testing and much more. You will be part of a small design team to start. You'll work with our compassionate UX Lead, our product management team who are empathetic to users, a rock star engineering team that care about building the best user experience and directly with users, who we champion...oh and you will have fun!

Interaction design experience is crucial. Desire to work on all parts of end-to-end User Experience is required and prior experience is valued. We love data-informed design, interest in this is important. You must be great at rapid prototyping for the web, and iOS is a bonus. You know about or want to learn about responsive design and understand the key benefits.

We need someone full-time who is local to our Seattle office.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years of experience in interaction design
  • Proven track-record of hands-on user-interface design leadership
  • Expert level proficiency with common design and prototyping tools (axure is nice to have)
  • Strong design sensibilities (visual, motion and interaction) and attention to detail required
  • BS/BA or Masters Degree in UI, Interactive Media, Graphic, or Industrial Design
  • Outstanding communication, design thought leadership, and presentation skills
  • A portfolio demonstrating breadth, creativity, and innovation
  • Strong interest in and aptitude for learning new technologies and design skills

If you understand users...

Qumulo builds products that people love by relentlessly iterating and listening to what our users want. We build software in a tight loop that involves customers, product managers, engineers, and support. If you know what users want before they do, call us!

Our experienced team of storage experts is looking for a product manager to help us define the first version of our product.

You will join our agile Scrum team as a product owner. Your time will be split between developing our understanding of the market and acting as the voice of the customer for our product team. You will live with users and customers. You will organize our early access product experiments and gather and interpret the feedback. You’ll own the backlog and the story prioritization. You’ll work with our UX team to define user roles, personae, and organizational archetypes. You’ll work with the executive team to keep us focused on the target market.

We need someone full-time who is local to our Seattle office.  Storage experience is nice but not necessary.  A computer science or engineering degree is a strong plus.

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in product management
  • 2+ years of experience as Scrum product owner
  • Demonstrated success defining and launching a product
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity: fail fast, adapt, keep moving
  • Travel (25%)

If you help users succeed...

It's not enough to build a great product. To win users' trust, Qumulo must eliminate all the obstacles that stand between a user and successful use and integration of our product. If you're passionate about helping users succeed, get in touch.

We're looking for an engineer to help our customers effectively use and integrate our product.

You will take point on helping customers use and integrate our storage product through our alpha and beta period. Help them use APIs, write scripts, diagnose problems, use the product, and generally succeed using Qumulo's storage appliances. Communicate feedback with product management and engineering, and bring new versions of the product to users only weeks after reporting feedback.

We need someone full-time who is local to our Seattle office. Storage experience is nice but not necessary. Background administering storage and helping users is preferred.

Requirements

  • 3+ years administering storage full or part-time
  • Proven track record working with customers to help them use and understand products
  • Ability to see the world through a user's eyes, and understand the limitations of a product through an engineer's eyes
  • Excellent written and verbal communications skills
  • Perl, python, shell-scripting, REST, and Visual Basic, along with Chef or Puppet. Private cloud technologies like OpenStack familiarity preferred
  • Flexibility and comfort with ambiguity: ability to fail fast, adapt, keep moving
  • Travel (25%)

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Contact

Qumulo, Inc.

Seattle:(206) 260-3588

Toll-free:(855) 478-6856

Toll-free:(855) 4-QUMULO

Address: 1501 4th Ave. Suite 1600 / Seattle WA 98101

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