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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed System Development

Alluxio logoAlluxio
TypeFull-time
WorkplaceOn-site
SenioritySenior
Salary$180,000–$250,000
LocationFoster City, CA
Posted9/11/2026
Engineering

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.

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    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.

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: $180,000 – $250,000 / 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 and a comprehensive benefits package (including health and paid time off).

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Alluxio

High-performance distributed caching built for large-scale AI workloads.

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 info@alluxio.com.

Private companySeries CAI-productOpen source
Unlock human wisdom
ThesisTermsPrivacy
Founded2015
HQSan Mateo, United States
Size51-200 employees
IndustrySoftware Development
Funding
  • Series C · $50M · Nov 16, 2021
Investors
Hillhouse Investment
Tech stackprometheus, nodejs, golang, amazon-web-services, kubernetes, langchain, google-cloud-platform, trino, microsoft-azure, java

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