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Senior Cloud Software Engineer - Database

Irvine, California, United States💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-04 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, build, and evolve cloud-native infrastructure storage platforms supporting distributed databases and large-scale data services.

Role type

Senior IC cloud infrastructure engineer (distributed storage/databases)

Builds

Scalable, reliable storage platform capabilities and reusable infrastructure components for distributed data systems

Domain

Cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database storage internals

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

Distributed system principles (CAP, BASE, sharding, replication), storage engine internals (B+-tree, LSM-tree, compaction), Linux systems, networking, automation (Ansible), Go/Java/C++/Python/Rust

Preferred skills

Kubernetes, cloud storage services, high QPS/low latency system design, multi-region/disaster recovery architecture

Technologies

Terraform, Ansible, Go, Python, Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, ELK

Responsibilities

Design scalable storage capabilities (data placement, sharding, replication, indexing, compaction, backup, recovery); Build infrastructure solutions integrating open-source database/storage technologies; Drive automation for provisioning, configuration, CI/CD, and operational workflows; Develop reusable platform components for application and database teams; Collaborate with DBAs to translate requirements into scalable infrastructure solutions; Evaluate architecture trade-offs for performance, scalability, and availability; Design performance optimization solutions across storage engines and distributed data paths.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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