Senior Principal Software Engineer

What you'll do

• Leads technical strategy and provides guidance to senior leadership on engineering goals.
• Designs high-performance, low-level systems for key-value stores with billions of keys.
• Develops distributed storage solutions ensuring sub-millisecond latencies for millions of requests.
• Implements advanced data structures like B-trees and LSM trees for efficient indexing.
• Mentors team members and aligns engineers with shared objectives in system development.
• Contributes to the design and implementation of distributed consistency algorithms (Raft, Paxos).
• Guides teams on transaction management using MVCC in high-scale data plane systems.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of engineering experience in architecture, development, or operations
• Expertise in C/C++ and willingness to work with Rust
• Deep knowledge of low-level system design and high-performance service development
• Experience with distributed storage, indexing strategies, and consistency protocols like Raft and Paxos
• Contribution to open-source databases such as RocksDB, MySQL, or PostgreSQL
• Ability to provide strategic technical guidance and influence organizational goals
• Strong mentorship skills for guiding and developing engineering teams