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TiDB, powered by PingCAP · 8 hours ago

Principal Software Engineer - Distributed Storage

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Remote

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$180K/yr - $260K/yr

8+ years exp

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Zita Zhao

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Responsibilities

Design and implement core kernel features of TiKV to improve performance, scalability, and reliability.

Optimize data structures, algorithms, and concurrency mechanisms in TiKV to maximize throughput and minimize latency.

Collaborate with the open-source community to review and merge contributions to the TiKV codebase, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards.

Lead efforts to enhance TiKV's backup and restore capabilities at the kernel level, including but not limited to developing efficient snapshotting and Pitr mechanisms.

Analyze and improve TiDB's performance, stability, and scalability in the cloud environment.

Troubleshoot and resolve customers' critical issues such as performance, stability, or scalability.

Document design decisions, implementation details, and performance optimizations in technical specifications, design documents, and code comments.

Stay updated on the latest developments in distributed systems research and industry trends, and contribute insights and expertise to inform our technology roadmap.

Mentor junior engineers and help to grow the whole team's technical capability.

Qualification

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Computer Science degree8+ years in database developmentTiKV experienceDistributed systems developmentCloud-native technologiesKubernetes

Required

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

8+ years of experience in database, storage, and/or distributed system development.

Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team.

Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams.

A passion for learning and staying updated on emerging technologies and industry trends.

Preferred

Experience with TiKV or similar distributed key-value stores (e.g., RocksDB, etc.) is highly desirable.

Familiarity with cloud-native technologies (e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure infra) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus.

Company

TiDB, powered by PingCAP

Founded in 2015, TiDB was born from the vision of three talented software engineers who set out to build a database system that would be more scalable and reliable than MySQL, while retaining its rich ecosystem of tools and frameworks.

Founded in 2015

Sunnyvale, California, USA

501-1000 employees

https://pingcap.com

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