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From the employer's careers site First seen 11 Sept 2026 · Still live on 2 Nov 2026

Senior Software Engineer - Distributed System Development

Alluxio Foster City, California On-site senior full-time

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Description

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.

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.

Requirements:

  • 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.

Nice to 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.

Skills

Required

  • Distributed Data Services
  • memory and data structure efficiency
  • thread concurrency
  • locking optimizations
  • caching policies
  • Java
  • C/C++
  • Go
  • distributed and parallel systems
  • distributed storage systems
  • large-scale software systems
  • security software development

Nice to have

  • open source project
  • fast-paced programming environment

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