Staff Software Engineer, ASE Storage Infrastructure

What you'll do

• Own the technical vision for the Replication and Metadata Systems powering Elastic Disk.
• Evolve the replication protocol to improve service availability, correctness, and durability at scale.
• Advance end-to-end durability through next-generation repair, replica reconstruction, and continuous scrubbing.
• Profile bottlenecks and evaluate next-gen network stacks to optimize the replication and network data path.
• Represent the team in cross-organizational efforts to shape a unified replication foundation for storage backends.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical writing, and hands-on collaboration with storage and compute partners.
• Drive engineering standards by implementing best practices for AI toolings, testing, and code reviews.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of professional software development experience building infrastructure, systems, or distributed services.
• 5+ years of experience designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed storage or database systems in production.
• Deep expertise in at least one systems-level language; strong Rust, C++, or C proficiency preferred.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems with a proven ability to reason about correctness under concurrency and failure.
• Experience owning services through the full lifecycle including design, implementation, rollout, on-call, and incident response.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• MS or PhD in Computer Science or a related field (preferred).
• Experience with consensus protocols, block storage, or data durability techniques (preferred).