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The Senior Software Engineer, Replication joins the Replication Team to build infrastructure for high availability, fault tolerance, and tunable consistency. In this role, you will design and implement distributed-systems features that protect data and maintain application availability under demanding conditions. Day-to-day responsibilities include developing production features across the replicated data lifecycle, improving recovery workflows, and optimizing replication lag and throughput. You will write production-quality C++ code and develop unit, integration, and system tests using JavaScript and Python. The work involves solving complex problems in data consistency, recovery time objectives, and flow control. You will also investigate distributed-systems issues, participate in design reviews, and mentor junior engineers. This position requires expertise in multithreaded programming, concurrency, and consensus protocols like Raft within a database context.
What does a Software Engineer earn in Massachusetts?
Median $199500 from 111 postings across 24 companies.
Design and implement production features across the replicated data lifecycle.
Improve restore and recovery workflows to meet specific recovery time objectives.
Optimize replication lag, throughput, and flow control while preventing performance regressions.
Write production-quality C++ code and comprehensive unit, integration, and system tests.
Use JavaScript and Python to extend test coverage and validate end-to-end behavior.
Investigate distributed-systems issues from customers and Technical Support to deliver durable fixes.
Lead the development of new features from initial design through final delivery.
Mentor junior engineers and interns while participating in technical hiring.
What we're looking for
At least five years of experience programming, debugging, and performance-tuning distributed or highly concurrent software systems.
Strong systems fundamentals including multithreaded programming, concurrency, debugging, and performance profiling.
Practical experience with distributed-systems concepts such as replication, data consistency, durability, recovery, fault tolerance, or consensus protocols.
Experience working with complex production codebases and diagnosing problems that cross system boundaries.
Strong written and verbal technical communication skills.
Professional experience developing production software in C++ (preferred).
Familiarity with database internals or core components of data-processing systems (preferred).
Experience writing unit, integration, and end-to-end tests in C++, JavaScript, or Python (preferred).
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