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# Site Reliability Engineer - Riyadh at MinIO

- **Company:** MinIO
- **Location:** Riyadh, Saudi Arabia
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-03
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-08
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio/jobs/5412750008

## Job description

MinIO is the data and memory foundation for enterprise AI. Built for the speed, scale, and economics that AI and analytics demand, AIStor and MemKV unify every layer of the data stack, from agentic and inference context memory to tables and objects across core, edge, and cloud. Trusted by 77% of the Fortune 100, MinIO is redefining how AI factories, intelligent applications, and autonomous agents secure, persist, and unlock the full value of their data.

As a Site Reliability Engineer, you will work closely with customers as well as the engineering team on enhancing, optimizing, validating and automating our cloud-native storage platform. Your role will be a mix of DevOps and software engineering to assure that MinIo is delivering a very high quality product with high-performance, scalability and durability to enable seamless data storage and retrieval for demanding workloads for customers.

This role requires deep expertise in DevOps practices, SRE, systems programming, distributed computing, and storage architectures. You will work closely with a world-class team of engineers to push the boundaries of object storage performance and reliability.

What You Will Do:

- Enhance, optimize, validate and automate core MinIO software for performance, scalability, and security.
- Help building and delivering high-performance distributed storage solutions with a focus on cloud-native architectures.
- Validate the MinIO Software according to customer environment and requirements, ensuring no surprises are observed at customer deployments.
- Improve existing features, fix critical issues, and contribute to open-source repositories.
- Collaborate with other engineers to refine architecture, APIs, and integrations.
- Write efficient, well-documented, and maintainable code.
- Conduct performance benchmarking and debugging of complex storage environments.
- Work closely with customers to address issues, and manage expectations.

Your Skills and Experience:

- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 5+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
- Desire and ability to directly work with customers to solve their problem with product enhancement and automation.
- Experience in DevOps, GitOps, Automation and testing frameworks.
- Expertise in distributed systems, networking, or high-performance computing.
- Experience with cloud-native technologies (Kubernetes, containers, microservices).
- Strong proficiency in Go desired (or deep experience in C/C++/Rust with a willingness to learn Go).
- Deep understanding of storage systems, file systems, or databases.
- Strong problem-solving skills and experience debugging complex, large-scale applications.
- Contributions to open-source projects are a plus.
- Ability to work in a fast-moving, collaborative environment with a strong sense of ownership.
- Empathy towards the customer and ability to quickly dig in to resolve any customer issue.
- Passion for innovation and staying current with technology trends.
- Self-motivation and a commitment to continuous learning and adopting new tools and frameworks.
- A strong sense of ownership and accountability in delivering high-quality work while directly working with customers..
- A collaborative and team-oriented mindset, thriving in environments that value open communication and shared goals.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams, contributing to a positive and productive work environment.
- Attention to detail and fine craftsmanship.

## Equal Opportunity Policy (EEO)

MinIO is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and an affirmative action employer. We review applications for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, veteran status, genetic information, physical or mental disability, medical condition, marital status, or any other basis prohibited by law.

## About MinIO

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: MinIO provides high-performance, S3-compatible object storage purpose-built for AI, analytics, and cloud-native workloads.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding $126.3M, last round $103M raised ~4 years ago)
- **Headquarters**: Redwood City, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2014
- **Founders**: Garima Kapoor, Anand Babu “AB” Periasamy, Harshavardhana

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Data Infrastructure / Object Storage
- **Target customers**: B2B, Enterprise (77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO), AI/ML teams, analytics platforms
- **Mission**: Remove every barrier between organizations and their data, enabling secure, sovereign, AI-ready infrastructure.

## Products & Services
- **[MinIO AIStor](https://www.min.io/)**: High-performance object store with native S3 compatibility, consistent sub-10ms latency, exabyte-scale scalability, and 99.999999999% durability. Designed for AI training, inference, and analytics. Includes zero-touch operations, self-healing architecture, and 40% lower TCO.
- **Context Memory for AI Inference**: Purpose-built memory layer that delivers 95%+ GPU utilization, 50% lower cost per token, and average savings of $2M per 100 GPUs.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: $126.3M total funding raised (Series B, last round $103M)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Investors listed on company site but not named in public summaries; strategic partner Databricks (named 2026 ISV Storage Partner of the Year)
- **Growth Signals**:
  - 77% of the Fortune 500 use MinIO
  - 32.9K+ GitHub stars, 53.3K+ community members, 1.4K+ contributors
  - Peak throughput of 19.2 TiB/s
  - Awarded 2026 Databricks ISV Storage Partner of the Year
  - Expanding globally with open roles in South Korea, Saudi Arabia, France, and across the US

## Competitive Advantages
- **Unmatched performance**: Sub-10ms latency and ability to saturate any hardware (drive IOPS to network throughput)
- **Limitless scalability**: Single flat namespace scales across clusters, data centers, and clouds to exabyte level
- **Enterprise-grade reliability**: 11 nines durability, self-healing, zero-touch operations
- **Ecosystem integration**: Native support for PyTorch, Iceberg, and all major AI frameworks; richest S3 API support
- **Cost efficiency**: 40% lower total cost of ownership compared to legacy storage

## Strategic Focus
- Accelerating AI transformation with a data foundation that unifies edge, core, and cloud environments
- Enabling zero-copy hybrid data architectures for analytics and agentic computing
- Deepening partnerships with AI/ML platforms (e.g., Databricks, NVIDIA) and expanding into new geographies

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described as “hackers” who are problem solvers, kind, and minimalist. Emphasis on empathy, open discourse, rapid prototyping, data-driven change, and going above and beyond for customers.
- **Work environment**: Remote-first, globally distributed. Offices in Redwood City, CA (hybrid for some roles).
- **Benefits**: Medical, vision, dental insurance; paid maternity and paternity leave; $25,000 basic life insurance; long-term disability; unlimited vacation plus 12 paid holidays; 401(k) with match.
- **Diversity**: Hiring focused solely on talent and qualifications, regardless of background or demographics.
- **Engineering culture**: Strong open-source community (32.9K GitHub stars), rapid prototyping, and minimal overhead in product and process.

## Sources
1. [MinIO Careers Page](https://www.min.io/careers)
2. [MinIO Official Site](https://www.min.io/)
3. [MinIO Job Board (Greenhouse)](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/minio)
4. [MinIO About Page](https://www.minio.io/about)
5. [CB Insights Company Profile](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/minio)

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