Software Development Engineer, Storage Engine

What you'll do

• Design and implement high-performance KV storage engines and filesystems for distributed storage and database backends.
• Explore next-generation KV storage architectures to improve latency and throughput.
• Understand storage needs across business scenarios and collaborate with business teams on suitable storage solutions.

What they ask for

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or a related major.
• Proficiency in C/C++, and familiarity with at least one of Python, Shell, or a similar language.
• Proficiency in systems programming, including system calls and library functions, network and multithreaded programming, debugging, and IO performance tuning.
• In-depth understanding of storage architectures and principles, plus distributed systems fundamentals including consensus, replication, consistency models, and fault tolerance.

Nice to have

• PhD's degree or higher in a related major; experience with asynchronous programming and event-driven architectures.
• Development experience in distributed storage, caching, database systems, KV engines, filesystems, or storage-compute disaggregation; familiarity with RocksDB, LevelDB, Redis, Memcached, or Cachelib.

Tools

C/C++, Python, Shell, LSM Tree, ext4, bluefs, RocksDB, LevelDB