🇿🇦 Hirezar Summary for South African Applicants

This fully remote full time position at MinIO is open to applicants from South Africa. As a remote position, you can work from anywhere in South Africa — whether you're based in Johannesburg, Cape Town, Durban, or a smaller town.

Job Description

MinIO is the industry leader in high-performance object storage and the company behind the world's fastest, most widely deployed object store, powering production infrastructure for more than half of the Fortune 500, including 9 of the 10 largest global automakers and all 10 of the largest U.S. banks. Our enterprise offering, AIStor, is engineered to handle the scale, speed, and pressure of modern AI and analytics, from terabytes to exabytes, all in a single namespace.

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:

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Tips for South African Applicants

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Timezone Advantage

South Africa (SAST, UTC+2) overlaps well with European business hours and has a few hours of overlap with US East Coast. Mention your timezone flexibility in your application.

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Salary in Context

Even without a listed salary, international remote roles typically pay 2-3x more than equivalent local positions in South Africa due to the exchange rate advantage.

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Application Tips

Tailor your CV to international standards — use a clean format, highlight remote work experience, and include your English proficiency. Many SA applicants succeed by emphasising their strong work ethic and cultural adaptability.

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Load Shedding Preparedness

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About MinIO

MinIO is a company in the director industry that hires remote workers from South Africa.