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Senior Software Engineer

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 is in production use today at eight out of the top ten internet companies. Our mission is to be the data orchestration layer for the cloud.

As customers continuously push the envelope for ways to extract value from data, Alluxio is driving innovation in data access and management for large scale distributed systems. Alluxio (a.k.a Tachyon Nexus), a project from AMPLab like Apache Spark and Mesos, is charging full steam to help customers navigate the digital transformation. Alluxio is in production use today at seven out of the top ten internet companies. Venture-backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Seven Seas Partners, Alluxio was founded at UC Berkeley’s AMPLab by the creators of the Tachyon open-source project.

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 big data 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 consistently high performance to customers in financial services, high tech, retail and telecommunications.

Alluxio has received numerous accolades, including recently being named: One of the 20 Coolest Cloud Software Companies of 2021. Our customers include Uber, Tiktok, Expedia, Rakuten, Microsoft, Comcast, and more! Please review our Wikipedia to learn more about us! Join our world-class team of empathetic, enthusiastic and creative people who can work on some of the toughest big data problems.

About The Role:

Alluxio’s critical use cases involve integrations with an enormous number of storage systems and compute frameworks.
Engineers across the entire company, both within engineering and sales, need the capability to deploy these complex scenarios on demand in the shortest amount of time.
Our internal deployment infrastructure automates all these steps, exposing the deployment, configuration, and job execution of these clusters generically for other engineers to build their use cases from.
The infrastructure also serves as the backbone for benchmarking the performance of Alluxio.

As the Senior Software Engineer at Alluxio, You Will Be Able to Build and Own:

You will own the development process from start to finish
Have a deep understanding of the motivations behind the issues to solve with the product team
You will design and implement solutions with other engineers and support the features and tools once they are deployed
Have the ability to learn and execute independently while operating in cloud-based environments is a must to keep up with our fast-paced growth
Responsible for aspects of delivering the Alluxio project as a product into the hands of our users

As the Senior Software Engineer at Alluxio, What We are Looking For:

BS degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience.
2+ years of experience as a software engineer
Experience with programming in Golang and/or Java, or similar languages
Familiarity with cloud providers (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure)
Familiarity with cloud deployment tools and services (ex. Terraform preferably, AWS EMR, GCP dataproc)
Familiarity with one or more of the following areas: performance benchmarking, distributed systems, and/or enterprise software
A growing startup mentality of doing whatever it takes to: get things done the right way, figure out problems independently, and share your passion with everyone taking part in the same journey

Benefits and Perks We Offer:

Unlimited PTO
Amazing Medical, Dental, and Vision Plans
Commuter Benefits ($50+)
Everyday Catered Lunch and Dinner
Boba Thursday
Relaxation/Massage Room Onsite
Gym Access
Frequent Company Outings and Trips

Alluxio is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or other non-merit factor.

Alluxio Glassdoor Company Review

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