Principal Software Engineer - Distributed Storage

Posted 3 Days Ago
7 Locations
Remote
180K-260K Annually
7+ Years Experience
Database • Analytics • Consulting
The Role
As a Principal Software Engineer, you will design and implement core features of TiKV, optimize performance, and enhance backup capabilities. The role includes troubleshooting critical issues, documenting technical details, mentoring junior engineers, and staying updated on distributed systems research.
Summary Generated by Built In

Join us as we scale our business in NA/EMEA by building on our tremendous success around the world. The massive database market is going to double over the next few years (the IDC estimates it to be $119B+ by 2025) and PingCAP is a global player positioned as a major disruptor with TiDB Database and Database as a Service offering. TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. Large and high-growth organizations in markets as varied as financial services, logistics, gaming, e-commerce and software as a service have successfully deployed and expanded their TiDB footprint on mission-critical applications. Our strong open-source community roots (32,000 stars on GitHub), innovative products and inclusive culture draw passionate and dedicated people to our company. Learn more about PingCAP careers and join our team to be at the forefront of innovation and growth.


Responsibilities

  • Design and implement core kernel features of TiKV to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.
  • Optimize data structures, algorithms, and concurrency mechanisms in TiKV to maximize throughput and minimize latency.
  • Collaborate with the open-source community to review and merge contributions to the TiKV codebase, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards.
  • Lead efforts to enhance TiKV's backup and restore capabilities at the kernel level, including but not limited to developing efficient snapshotting and Pitr mechanisms.
  • Analyze and improve TiDB's performance, stability, and scalability in the cloud environment.
  • Troubleshoot and resolve customers' critical issues such as performance, stability, or scalability.
  • Document design decisions, implementation details, and performance optimizations in technical specifications, design documents, and code comments.
  • Stay updated on the latest developments in distributed systems research and industry trends, and contribute insights and expertise to inform our technology roadmap.
  • Mentor junior engineers and help to grow the whole team's technical capability.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • 5+ years of experience in database, storage, and/or distributed system development.
  • Experience with TiKV or similar distributed key-value stores (e.g., RocksDB, etc.) is highly desirable.
  • Familiarity with cloud-native technologies(e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure infra) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.
  • Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.
  • A passion for learning and staying updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.

We encourage people from underrepresented groups to apply. Come advance with us! In keeping with our values, no employee or applicant will face discrimination/harassment based on: race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, gender, marital domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, or veteran status. PingCAP also strives to prevent other, subtler forms of inappropriate behavior (e.g., stereotyping) from ever gaining a foothold in our organization. Whether blatant or hidden, barriers to success have no place at PingCAP.

Top Skills

Rocksdb
Tidb
Tikv
The Company
HQ: Sunnyvale, CA
331 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

PingCAP is a leading enterprise for distributed database, provides open source distributed database products, solutions and consulting, technical support and training certification services. It is committed to providing stable, efficient, safe, reliable, open and compatible new data service platform for global industry users, liberating enterprise productivity and accelerating digital transformation & upgrading.PingCAP's flagship project, TiDB, is an open-source, distributed Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) database that features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability with MySQL compatibility. It is trusted by global innovation leaders for mission-critical applications, such as Databricks, Dailymotion, Streak, Square, and Colopl.
PingCAP has donated two projects to CNCF: TiKV (TiDB’s storage engine) and Chaos Mesh (TiDB’s chaos testing tool). TiKV is a cloud-native distributed Key-Value store and now a CNCF graduated project. Chaos Mesh is a powerful chaos engineering platform for Kubernetes and now a CNCF sandbox project.

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