
About Alluxio
Streamlining data pipelines for modern enterprises
Key Highlights
- Raised $81.5M in Series B funding
- Serves global enterprises like Alibaba Cloud and WalmartLabs
- Headquartered in San Mateo, CA
- Open-source platform for data orchestration
Alluxio is an open-source virtual distributed file system that streamlines data pipelines for business intelligence, applied machine learning, and model training. Headquartered in San Mateo, CA, Alluxio has raised $81.5 million in funding from investors like Andreessen Horowitz and Seven Seas Partne...
🎁 Benefits
Alluxio offers comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits, along with wellness programs and gym access. Employees enjoy flexible remote work o...
🌟 Culture
Alluxio fosters a culture of respect and diversity, encouraging collaboration among its team members. The company is committed to open-source principl...
Skills & Technologies
Overview
Alluxio is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to advance their data orchestration engine for AI and analytics. You'll work on optimizing distributed systems and collaborating with product teams. This position requires experience in distributed systems engineering.
Job Description
Who you are
You have 5+ years of experience in distributed systems engineering, with a strong background in optimizing metadata management, caching, and replication across large-scale environments. Your expertise includes designing fault-tolerant services that operate seamlessly in multi-region and multi-cloud settings, ensuring high availability and performance.
You possess a deep understanding of data orchestration and are passionate about evolving storage abstractions to support large-scale AI and machine learning data pipelines. Your collaborative spirit drives you to work closely with internal product teams, pushing the limits of distributed I/O performance and contributing to impactful systems solutions.
What you'll do
As a Senior Software Engineer at Alluxio, you will tackle high-impact systems problems that are critical to the performance of our data orchestration platform. You will optimize metadata management and caching strategies across thousands of nodes, ensuring efficient data access and retrieval. Your role will involve designing and implementing concurrent, fault-tolerant services that can handle the complexities of multi-region and multi-cloud environments.
You will also be responsible for evolving Alluxio's storage abstraction and scheduling layer, enabling support for large-scale AI and ML data pipelines. Collaborating with internal product teams, you will push the boundaries of distributed I/O performance, ensuring that our technology meets the demands of modern AI workloads.
What we offer
At Alluxio, you will be part of a small, senior, and highly technical team where your contributions will have visible impact. We offer a dynamic work environment that encourages innovation and collaboration. You will have the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology that powers data orchestration for some of the largest companies in the world. Join us in shaping the future of data infrastructure for AI and analytics.
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