# Staff Software Engineer - Distributed System Development 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/7aaad6a6-b103-463b-a3b4-a407a940ea72
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/alluxio-staff-software-engineer-distributed-system-development/

## 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.

## What they're 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

Tags: Engineering