Staff Software Engineer - Distributed System Development

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Foster City, CA, USA
In-Office
Junior
Big Data • Machine Learning • Software
The Role
Lead development of Alluxio’s distributed data services, solving problems involving scalability, durability, high availability, memory efficiency, concurrency, locking, and caching. Design and implement systems supporting thousands of nodes, contribute to product architecture and technical direction, and lead engineering initiatives from concept through completion while collaborating with product management and team members.
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About the Role:

    As a Staff Software Engineer at Alluxio, you will be responsible for leading and evolving the state-of-the-art Alluxio project.. The work would involve solving challenging problems in the area of Distributed Data Services, memory and data structure efficiency, thread concurrency, locking optimizations, caching policies and implementation.

As the Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, What You Will Be Able To Build and Owner:

  • The role would include developing innovative solutions for scaling systems to thousands of nodes and providing data durability and high availability. 

  • The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who has the ability to come up with creative solutions and lead team members to take them from concept to completion. 

  • You would contribute to the product architecture and implement the technical direction, working along with the product management.

As the Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, What We are Looking For:

  • Having at least 1-2 years in technical leader role

  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.

  • Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, or Go.

  • Experience working with two or more from the following is a must: distributed and parallel systems, distributed storage systems, architecting large-scale software systems, and/or security software development.

  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

  • Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

As the Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, We Would Appreciate If You Have:

  • Master’s, PhD degree, further education or equivalent practical experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field.

  • Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, or Go.

  • Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.

  • Experience contributing to and/or maintaining an open source project.

  • Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.

  • Contributed or contributing to Alluxio.

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
 
Base Salary Range: $200,000 – $300,000 / year (The final base salary offer within this range is determined by various factors, including candidate experience, technical qualifications, and operational needs. )

Compensation & Benefits:The posted range reflects the base salary range for this role. In addition to base pay, full-time positions at Alluxio are eligible for performance-based annual bonuses, equity options, and a comprehensive benefits package (including health, 401k, and paid time off).

Skills Required

  • At least 1–2 years of experience in a technical leadership role
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a similar technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Java, C/C++, or Go
  • Experience in at least two of distributed and parallel systems, distributed storage systems, architecting large-scale software systems, or security software development
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Working proficiency in written and verbal English
  • Master’s or PhD degree in engineering, computer science, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience
  • Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including Java, C/C++, or Go
  • Ability and interest in learning additional programming languages as needed
  • Experience contributing to or maintaining an open-source project
  • Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, iterative programming environment
  • Contributions to Alluxio
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The Company
HQ: San Mateo, CA
107 Employees
Year Founded: 2015

What We Do

Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to big data and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects. Intelligent data tiering and data management deliver consistent high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications. Alluxio is in production use today at seven out of the top ten internet companies. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Seven Seas Partners, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open source project. For more information, contact [email protected].

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