# Software Engineer – Distributed Systems at Alluxio

- Company: Alluxio
- What the company does: Alluxio is a high-performance distributed caching layer built for large-scale AI workloads. Alluxio maximizes I/O throughput and minimizes I/O latency for model training, model deployment, inference cold starts, feature store queries and more — all without... Backed by a16z.
- Company website: https://www.alluxio.io
- Type: Startups
- Level: Mid level
- Location: Foster City, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $230K to $330K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-10-10
- Apply by: 2026-11-24
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/alluxio/75e69e43-6658-4fe7-a51b-2b7921def1c2?utm_source=1752vc&utm_medium=careers
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alluxio-software-engineer-distributed-systems/

## About the role

As a Sr. Staff Software Engineer – Distributed Systems at Alluxio, you will lead the end-to-end architecture and technical evolution of our next-generation distributed data platform. You will drive system-level design decisions that enable Alluxio to scale to thousands of nodes and exabytes of data, while maintaining performance, reliability, and simplicity for users. Found on 1752vc Careers, the job board for startup and VC roles.

## What they're looking for

- 1.PhD in Computer Science, Distributed Systems, or related fields
- 2.Deep understanding of consensus algorithms, storage engines, or large-scale data systems
- 3.Experience building or operating cloud-native infrastructure platforms
- 4.Experience contributing to or maintaining open-source distributed systems projects
- 5.Track record of designing systems that operate at massive scale (thousands of nodes or higher)
- 6.Passion for building high-performance infrastructure software

Tags: Engineering

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