Principal Engineer, Cloud Storage Architect

The Cloud Storage Architect will serve as a key industry intelligence leader, responsible for continuously gathering, evaluating, and translating the latest advancements in cloud and clustered storage architectures into actionable insights for Western Digital’s test and validation teams. By monitoring how major cloud providers design, deploy, and operate large-scale storage systems—including S3-compatible object storage, distributed clusters, and hyperscale data durability models—the architect will help ensure HDD test strategies accurately reflect real-world customer environments. This role will actively share emerging cloud-storage trends, workload behaviors, and architectural patterns with System Test, Automated Cluster Environment and HDD qualification teams, enabling the creation of more representative, robust, and forward-looking tests.

Key Responsibilities

• Continuously gather and evaluate current cloud and clustered storage industry prac...