--- title: 'Senior Storage Engineer at Eqvilent' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-storage-engineer-eqvilent-remote-jgvm639kpt1c' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-09-08' --- # Senior Storage Engineer at Eqvilent - **Company:** Eqvilent - **Location:** Remote - **Work type:** remote - **Posted:** 2026-04-13 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08 - **Apply:** https://job-boards.eu.greenhouse.io/eqvilentjobs/jobs/4780181101 ## Job description We build and operate core infrastructure across multiple data centers supporting a high-frequency trading environment. Our storage platform underpins data processing, analytics, and compute-heavy workloads across the company. Its reliability and performance directly impact productivity, cost efficiency, and the ability of teams to deliver results. This role owns a critical part of the infrastructure where failures or degradation immediately translate into delays, wasted compute, and operational risk. What You’ll Be Doing: - Ensuring storage is reliable, predictable, and not a bottleneck for any critical workloads across the company - Owning performance and stability of storage systems, and continuously improving them as data volumes and workloads grow - Designing and evolving data placement, resiliency, and lifecycle strategies to balance performance, cost, and reliability - Ensuring the platform behaves predictably during failures, maintenance, and scaling events - Improving how storage integrates with compute environments (GPU/HPC, Kubernetes, data pipelines) - Driving faster and more reliable incident detection, resolution, and prevention - Improving capacity planning to avoid emergency scaling and unexpected degradation - Continuously improving tooling, automation, and operational practices to make the platform easier to operate and scale What We Look For In You: - Experience operating large-scale storage systems in production (distributed or vendor-based) - Strong understanding of Linux, storage performance, and system behavior under load - Ability to troubleshoot complex issues and drive them to resolution - Practical approach to automation and system reliability - Ownership mindset — ability to take responsibility for critical systems and improve them over time Nice-to-have: - Experience working with high-performance or distributed storage systems - Understanding of networking in high-throughput environments - Experience in environments with high reliability and performance requirements (finance, HFT, etc.) Why Should You Join Our Team? - Great challenges with many opportunities to prove yourself - A welcoming group of highly qualified international professionals - Cutting-edge hardware and technology - Work remotely from anywhere in the world - Access any of our global offices anytime - Flexible schedule - 40 paid days off - Competitive salary ## About Eqvilent ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Eqvilent is a global quantitative trading firm that uses machine learning, deep learning, and FPGA technology to provide liquidity across financial markets. - **Entity Type**: Private (bootstrapped, investor-free) - **Headquarters**: Dubai, United Arab Emirates - **Founded**: 2020 - **Founders**: Stanislav Semenov (Founder & CEO) ## Core Business - **Primary industry**: Quantitative trading / High-frequency trading (HFT) - **Target customers**: Financial exchanges, institutional counterparties, and market participants (B2B) - **Mission/Purpose**: “Provide liquidity on financial markets with cutting-edge technologies” (inferred from website) ## Products & Services - **Algorithmic Liquidity Provision**: Eqvilent operates as a market maker across equities, derivatives, and currencies, using proprietary algorithms to execute over 10 million trades daily. - **High-Performance Computing Infrastructure**: The firm runs 2,000+ GPUs, 31,000+ CPU cores, 1.5 PB+ system RAM, and 75 PB+ storage, with a total power capacity of up to 4.5 MW. - **Trading Technology Stack**: Deep learning, FPGA-based acceleration, signal processing, and MLOps pipelines. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metric**: 10 million+ trades per day; 200+ professionals worldwide (as of late 2025) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external investors (investor-free). Key infrastructure partners in India include Tata Communications, Bharti Airtel, and Comtel. - **Growth Signals**: - Received SEBI registration in India (July 2025) to operate as a stock broker in equities, derivatives, and currency markets. - Authorised by the Malta Financial Services Authority (MiFID II licence) in July 2025, expanding into the European market. - Opened offices in London, Lisbon, Malta, Mumbai, Hong Kong, and Dubai. - Continues to hire aggressively across quantitative research, machine learning, engineering, and compliance roles. ## Competitive Advantages - **Talent density**: The team includes 10+ Kaggle Grandmasters and highly specialised quantitative researchers. - **Hardware edge**: Ownership of a massive GPU/CPU cluster (2,000+ GPUs, 31,000+ CPU cores) gives the firm a significant speed and compute advantage in strategy backtesting and execution. - **Regulatory breadth**: Licensed in multiple jurisdictions (Malta, Dubai DIFC, UK, India, Hong Kong) enabling global market access. - **Remote-first culture**: Entirely remote-friendly with optional offices, attracting top global talent without relocation barriers. ## Strategic Focus - **Geographic expansion**: Establishing local presence in high-growth markets such as India (via SEBI registration) and Europe (via MiFID II licence). - **Technology leadership**: Continued investment in deep learning, FPGA, and ultra-low-latency infrastructure. - **Talent acquisition**: Scaling the team across quantitative research, engineering, and compliance while maintaining high hiring bar. ## Why Work Here - **Remote-first**: “Work from anywhere, anytime” – fully remote-friendly policy. - **Culture**: No dress code (“suits strictly prohibited”), flexible hours, generous leave. - **Compensation**: Attractive packages including competitive salary, equity-like incentives? (not specified), and benefits. - **Equipment**: “SOTA Equipment” – latest tools and technology provided. - **Professional development**: Access to courses, workshops, and certifications; team of world-class researchers to learn from. - **Global offices**: Presence in Dubai, London, Lisbon, Malta, Mumbai, Hong Kong – option to work from any of these hubs. ## Sources 1. [Eqvilent – About Us](https://www.eqvilent.com/about) 2. [Eqvilent – Quantitative Trading](https://www.eqvilent.com/) 3. [Eqvilent – Careers](https://www.eqvilent.com/careers) 4. [Eqvilent Jobs on Greenhouse](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/eqvilentjobs) 5. 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