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Alluxio · 4 months ago

Staff Software Engineer

Foster City, California

Full-time

Hybrid

Lead/Staff

$200K/yr - $275K/yr

Alluxio is a premier developer of data orchestration software for AI and large-scale analytics, trusted by major companies like Meta and Uber. The Staff Software Engineer will tackle challenging problems in AI infrastructure and distributed data services, developing innovative solutions for scaling systems and ensuring data durability and high availability.

AnalyticsArtificial Intelligence (AI)Open SourceSoftware

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Evolve and enhance Alluxio capabilities, advancing state of distributed systems engineering in AI and beyond

Solve challenging problems in distributed data services, memory and data structure efficiency, thread concurrency, locking optimizations, process coordination, and caching policies

Develop innovative and scalable solutions for systems with thousands of nodes, ensuring data durability and high availability across distributed environments

Collaborate with senior engineers to design and implement cutting-edge features that push the boundaries of distributed systems performance

Qualification

JavaC/C++Distributed systemsGoAnalytical skillsLearning new languagesEnglish communicationProblem-solvingCollaborative environment

Required

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience; a Master's or Ph.D. is preferred

Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, such as Java, C/C++, or Go

Experience with at least two of the following: distributed and parallel systems, distributed storage systems, architecting large-scale software systems, or security software development

Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Proficiency in verbal and written English communication

Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative programming environment

Preferred

A Master's or Ph.D. is preferred

Interest and ability to learn additional programming languages as needed

Benefits

Equity (stock options)

Access to a comprehensive benefits offering

Company

Alluxio

Alluxio is a web-scale producer that develops data orchestration for AI analytics and cloud services.

Founded in 2015

San Mateo, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.alluxio.io

H1B Sponsorship

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Trends of Total Sponsorships

2025 (11)

2024 (4)

2023 (6)

2022 (7)

2021 (3)

2020 (1)

Funding

Current Stage

Growth Stage

Total Funding

$73M

Key Investors

Hillhouse InvestmentSeven Seas PartnersAndreessen Horowitz

2021-11-16Series C· $50M

2020-04-16Series B· $7M

2019-01-18Series B· $8.5M

Leadership Team

Haoyuan Li

Founder, Chairman, CEO

Amelia Wong

Cofounder, VP of Marketing (We're hiring!)

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