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Software Engineer, Storage

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Software Engineer, Storage in USA new

  • San Francisco, CA

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement a next-generation partitioned and resilient storage architecture.
  • Build query attribution, monitoring, and guardrails to identify and prevent problematic database queries.
  • Define data-store selection strategies and reusable pathways for engineering teams.
  • Own cache infrastructure, including reliability, capacity planning, and cache-correctness patterns.
  • Address database sharding, migration, and decomposition challenges in production environments.
  • Proactively manage backups, monitoring, query performance, and capacity planning.

Requirements

  • Experience with relational databases at scale, such as Postgres, MySQL, or similar OLTP systems.
  • Experience building and scaling databases or data infrastructure.
  • Understanding of database performance, reliability, and caching.
  • Preferred experience with production database sharding, migration, or decomposition.
  • Understanding of tradeoffs among storage engines and ability to guide workload-appropriate choices.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals and interest in building systems used by other engineers.

Benefits

  • Annual base salary range of $140,000-$225,000 USD.
  • Equity, comprehensive medical, vision, and dental coverage.
  • Access to a 401(k) retirement plan.
  • Short- and long-term disability insurance, life insurance, discounts, and other perks.
  • Hiring process includes 2-3 technical interviews and an onsite office interview with a small project and team meetings.

Salary: $140k - $225k/yr

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