Software Engineer- Metadata Storage

Location: San Jose Team: Technology Employment Type: Regular Job Code: A42830 Responsibilities About the Team: Our team plays a crucial role in the company's infrastructure landscape by offering a rich portfolio of highly available and ultimate-performance software components and foundation services to upper-level businesses. We are an international team looking for talented and passionate engineers at all levels to join us. Responsibilities: • Responsible for designing, developing, and operating ultra-performance metadata services, delivering key features including distributed coordination, distributed locking, metadata key-value storage, service discovery etc. • Responsible for developing automated and disaster-tolerance deployment solutions in both virtualized and bare-metal environments. • Responsible for providing metadata solutions for teams in the technical infrastructure areas (compute, storage, databases, etc.) and upper-layer business areas (advertising, payments, AI, etc.); driving cross-team collaborations for system architecture design and optimization for various business use cases. Qualifications Minimum Qualifications • Bachelors or above degree in Computer Science or Equivalent. • Strong coding skills in C / C++ • Deep understanding of consensus protocols including Raft, Paxos, ZAB etc. • Hands-on experience with large scale distributed systems; capability of trouble-shooting and performance tuning. Preferred Qualifications • Proficiency in Go, Java or Rust. • Experience of maintaining and contributing to open source projects including ZooKeeper, Etcd etc. • Experience with compute / storage / network tech stacks, including Kubernetes, NVMe, SPDK/DPDK, TCP/UDP, RDMA. Job Information 【For Pay Transparency】Compensation Description (Annually) The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $136800 - $359720 annually. Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units. Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short-term and long-term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure). The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice. 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