Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Foster City, CA)
Alluxio
Country: United States of America
Location: Foster City, California
Time Type: Full Time
Posted On: November 18, 2024
About Alluxio:
Proven at a global web-scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the premier developer of open-source data orchestration software for large-scale analytics and AI. Alluxio is in production use today at eight out of the top ten internet companies, and seven of the ten highest valued companies in the world. Our mission is to orchestrate data for all data driven applications in any cloud!
As customers continuously push the envelope for ways to extract value from data, Alluxio is driving innovation in data access and management for large-scale distributed systems. Alluxio is charging full steam to help customers navigate the digital transformation. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Hillhouse Capital, and Seven Seas Partners. Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open-source project.
Alluxio data orchestration platform is a new layer between storage and compute engines. This new data layer serves data to large-scale analytics and AI in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds, and countries, providing simplified data access to files and objects. Features like intelligent caching, unified namespace, and data management provide agility and cost efficiency to customers in financial services, high-tech, retail, and telecommunications.
Alluxio is trusted by Meta, Uber, Tencent, Tiktok, Alibaba, Expedia, Rakuten, Microsoft, Walmart, and more! Please review Wikipedia to learn more about us! Join our world-class team of empathetic, enthusiastic, and creative people who can work on some of the toughest big data problems.
About the Role:
As a Senior Software Engineer at Alluxio, you will tackle complex and cutting-edge challenges in the realm of distributed data services. Your work will involve optimizing latency and throughput for distributed systems, by using concurrent data structures, improved locking mechanisms, and leveraging advanced hardware technologies. You’ll also focus on building scalable systems that operate efficiently across thousands of nodes while ensuring data durability and high availability. This role is ideal for a software engineer who thrives on solving technical challenges and collaborating with senior team members to deliver innovative solutions.