# Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems

**Company**: Alluxio
**Location**: Mountain View
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: staff
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: Engineering
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

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.

The role would include developing innovative solutions for scaling systems to thousands of nodes and providing data durability and high availability. You would contribute to the product architecture and implement the technical direction, working along with the product management.

We are looking for 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 should have excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, and working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

A Master's, PhD degree, further education or equivalent practical experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field is preferred. Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, or Go is required. Experience contributing to and/or maintaining an open source project is also desirable.

## Skills

### Required
- Java
- C/C++
- Go
- Distributed Data Services
- Memory and data structure efficiency
- Thread concurrency
- Locking optimizations
- Caching policies

### Nice to have
- Open source project contribution
- Product architecture contribution

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