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Staff Software Engineer-Distributed System Development(Beijing/Shanghai)

Location
China
Work arrangement
On-site

About the role

Posted Oct 11, 2025

About the Role:

  • As a Staff Software Engineer at Alluxio, you will be responsible for leading and evolving the state-of-the-art Alluxio project.. The work would involve solving challenging problems in the area of Distributed Data Services, memory and data structure efficiency, thread concurrency, locking optimizations, caching policies and implementation.

As the Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, What You Will Be Able To Build and Owner:

  • The role would include developing innovative solutions for scaling systems to thousands of nodes and providing data durability and high availability. 
  • The ideal candidate is an experienced software engineer who has the ability to come up with creative solutions and lead team members to take them from concept to completion. 
  • You would contribute to the product architecture and implement the technical direction, working along with the product management.

As the Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, What We are Looking For:

  • Having at least 1-2 years in technical leader role
  • BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, or Go.
  • Experience working with two or more from the following is a must: distributed and parallel systems, distributed storage systems, architecting large-scale software systems, and/or security software development.
  • Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
  • Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

As the Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Systems at Alluxio, We Would Appreciate If You Have:

  • Master’s, PhD degree, further education or equivalent practical experience in engineering, computer science or other technical related field.
  • Proficiency in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to: Java, C/C++, or Go.
  • Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed.
  • Experience contributing to and/or maintaining an open source project.
  • Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative, and iterative programming environment.
  • Contributed or contributing to Alluxio.

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Location
China
Workplace
On-site
Team
Engineering
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Alluxio

Alluxio

Proven at global web scale in production for modern data services, Alluxio is the developer of open source data orchestration software for the cloud. Alluxio moves data closer to AI and machine learning compute frameworks in any cloud across clusters, regions, clouds and countries, providing memory-speed data access to files and objects. Intelligent data tiering and data management deliver consistent high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications.

Series C51–200 employeesEnterprise
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