Join Alluxio as a distributed systems engineer to innovate in data access and management for large scale distributed systems.
Posted by employer 6 years ago
First seen on Joblaze 1 week ago
Last verified on the company career page 1 day ago
Not disclosed in this posting: compensation, years of experience, visa sponsorship.
Joblaze summary
In this role, the software engineer focuses on enhancing the Alluxio project by tackling complex challenges related to distributed data services and system efficiency. Key skills include expertise in memory management, thread concurrency, and process coordination, with an emphasis on developing scalable solutions for large systems. This position is ideal for experienced engineers with a strong background in distributed systems and a passion for open-source projects. The team comprises seasoned professionals from leading tech firms, fostering an innovative environment.
Quick facts
- Is the Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Beijing) role remote?
- No — this is an on-site role in China.
- Where is the role based?
- Alluxio is hiring for this position in China.
- What's the tech stack?
- Joblaze extracted these technologies from the posting: Concurrency, Memory Management, caching, data services, distributed systems.
- What seniority level is this role?
- Alluxio targets mid-level candidates for this position.
- Is this full-time or contract?
- Full-time for this Software Engineer - Distributed Systems (Beijing) role at Alluxio.
From the original posting
Are you interested in joining a group of highly talented engineers working on a open source project that is solving challenging problems across big data analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence? 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 (a.k.a Tachyon Nexus) a project from AMPLab like Apache Spark and Mesos is charging full steam to help customers navigate the digital transformation. . The Alluxio team includes leaders, innovators, explorers, and risk-takers with extensive industry experience from top tech companies including Google, Palantir and VMWare and alumni from top computer science programs including CMU, Stanford and UC Berkeley. The company is backed by Andreessen-Horowitz and has been named as top 10 hot startups for 2018.
As a distributed systems engineer at Alluxio you will be responsible for evolving the state-of-the-art Alluxio ( also knows as Tachyon Nexus earlier) project. The work would involve solving challenging problems in the area of Distributed Data Services, Memory and data structure efficiency, Thread concurrency and locking optimizations, process coordination
and caching policies and implementation. The role would include developing innovative solutions for scaling systems to thousands of node and providing Data Durability and High Availability.