Kentik seeks a Senior Staff Distributed Systems Engineer to co-own the technical vision for its storage services. Responsibilities include defining multi-year roadmap for storage, designing tiered (hot/warm/cold) storage and TTL-based eviction, optimizing for massive real-time ingestion and query performance, and collaborating with product, support, and engineering teams. Tech stack highlights: Go core engine, Kafka, Redis, Postgres/MySQL, gRPC/REST, Node.js/React. Compensation range (U.S.): $200,000–$245,000/year.