# Sr. Staff 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: Senior
- Location: Foster City, California
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://jobs.lever.co/alluxio/61977f52-5288-43fa-b4ca-dc604595a89d
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alluxio-sr-staff-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.

## 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

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