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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed System Development

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Foster City, CA, USA
Senior level
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Foster City, CA, USA
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Develop and scale Alluxio’s distributed data services for thousands of nodes, focusing on durability, high availability, memory efficiency, concurrency, locking, and caching. The engineer will contribute to architecture, implement technical direction, solve complex distributed-systems problems, and lead solutions from concept through completion while collaborating with product management.
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About the Role:

    As a Senior Software Engineer at Alluxio, you will be responsible for 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 Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, What You Will Be Able To Build and Owner:

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

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

  • >2 years of 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 Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, We Would Appreciate If You Have:

  • 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.

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Alluxio San Mateo, California, USA Office

1825 S Grant St, Suite 800, San Mateo, CA, United States, 94402

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