Senior Software Engineer, Storage

Team: IT

Location: US

Commitment: Full-time

Workplace Type: remote

Accountabilities:

• Design, build, and operate scalable distributed storage and database systems supporting critical online workloads.
• Investigate database internals, query execution, storage engines, and SQL latency or availability issues to identify and resolve complex technical problems.
• Improve database performance, reliability, and stability across storage, query execution, consensus, change data capture, routing, and shard management.
• Partner with database technology vendors on root cause analysis, technical improvements, and upstream contributions to open-source projects.
• Design and implement infrastructure for database adoption, including two-way replication, automated failover and failback, and migration tooling.
• Collaborate across Kernel, SRE, ORM, KV, and SQL interface teams to make database onboarding and migrations reliable and efficient for internal users.
• Validate and safely roll out new database architectures while maintaining transactional correctness across distributed shards.
• Build supporting frameworks and tooling for monitoring, observability, permissions, service discovery, and database operations.
• Analyze and optimize traffic prioritization, connection pooling, latency, concurrency, and overall system performance.
• Take ownership of high-severity production incidents, conduct deep technical investigations, and drive durable improvements to system reliability.
• Contribute to technical design, implementation, testing, and operational practices across a complex distributed systems environment.

Requirements:

• 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems, particularly in storage, data ingestion, backup and restore, or streaming.
• Hands-on experience with database or storage internals, including query execution, storage engines, replication, or consensus.
• Strong ability to understand, own, and contribute deeply to complex codebases, ideally including open-source systems.
• Proven experience maintaining, analyzing, and debugging high-severity production incidents.
• Strong software engineering skills with a focus on clean, testable, and maintainable production code.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems, reliability, performance, and operational best practices.
• Ability to investigate complex technical problems and translate findings into practical, scalable solutions.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills, particularly within a remote working environment.
• High ownership, sound technical judgment, and a consistent track record of delivering complex engineering projects.
• Ability to work effectively across infrastructure, platform, database, and application engineering teams.

Benefits:

• U.S. base salary range of $196,000–$230,000 USD.
• Eligibility for bonus and equity, depending on the role and applicable compensation structure.
• Comprehensive employee benefits.
• Employee Travel Credits.
• Reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process for applicants with disabilities.
• Opportunity to work on large-scale distributed storage and database infrastructure with significant technical complexity and impact.
• Exposure to open-source database technologies and collaboration across specialized engineering teams.