Staff Software Engineer

About Alluxio Alluxio powers the data layer for modern AI and analytics. Proven in production at eight of the top ten internet companies and seven of the ten highest-valued enterprises globally, Alluxio’s data orchestration platform unifies data across storage systems, regions, and clouds providing a high-performance distributed caching layer built for large-scale AI workloads. Spun out of UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of Tachyon and backed by Andreessen Horowitz, Hillhouse Capital, and Seven Seas Partners, Alluxio sits at the intersection of data, distributed systems, and AI infrastructure. Our technology is deployed at scale by organizations such as Meta, Uber, Tencent, TikTok, Alibaba, Expedia, Rakuten, Microsoft, and Walmart, orchestrating data for billions of operations per day. Learn more at alluxio.io or on Wikipedia. The Role We’re looking for experienced distributed-systems engineers to join our Core Product team and advance the next generation of Alluxio’s data-orchestration engine - the foundation for AI and analytics at global scale. As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll work on high-impact systems problems such as: 1. Optimizing metadata management, caching, and replication across thousands of nodes. 2. Designing concurrent, fault-tolerant services for multi-region and multi-cloud environments. 3. Evolving Alluxio’s storage abstraction and scheduling layer to support large-scale AI/ML data pipelines. 4. Collaborating with internal product teams to push the limits of distributed I/O performance. This is a hands-on, architecture-plus-implementation role for engineers who love deep systems work and want visible impact in a small, senior, highly technical team.