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The Principal Software Engineer, Core Infrastructure joins the Core Infrastructure Engineering team to build and deliver database and storage services at cloud scale. This role involves designing and developing new major data-plane components, defining foundations for next-generation data-planes, and performing software development tasks including designing, debugging, and prototyping. The engineer will provide technical guidance, drive software design, and perform high-level system design while mentoring junior team members. Key technical requirements include expertise in C/C++, Rust, and high-concurrency systems. Candidates must possess deep knowledge of low-level systems, distributed storage technologies like Write-Ahead Logging, indexing strategies such as B-tree and LSM tree, Raft, Paxos, and MVCC. The work focuses on solving performance-critical problems and building high-performance, low-level systems for multi-tenant cloud infrastructure.
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