Staff Software Engineer, ASE Storage Infrastructure

What you'll do

• Define the technical vision and multi-year roadmap for replication, durability, metadata, and data paths.
• Evolve replication protocols to improve service reliability, correctness, and availability at scale.
• Implement advanced durability features including repair, reconstruction, scrubbing, and point-in-time backups.
• Optimize performance of the replication and network data path by profiling bottlenecks and evaluating new stacks.
• Represent the team in cross-organizational efforts to establish unified storage backend foundations.
• Mentor engineers through design reviews, technical writing, and hands-on collaboration with internal partners.
• Maintain high engineering standards by integrating AI toolings and rigorous testing practices.

What we're looking for

• 10+ years of professional software development experience building infrastructure, systems, or distributed services.
• 5+ years designing, building, and operating large-scale distributed storage or database systems in production.
• Deep expertise in a systems-level language, with proficiency in Rust, C++, or C preferred.
• Strong fundamentals in distributed systems including concurrency, correctness, and failure handling.
• Experience managing the full service lifecycle including design, implementation, rollout, on-call, and incident response.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related engineering field, or equivalent experience.
• Master's or PhD in Computer Science or a related field preferred.
• Experience with consensus protocols, data durability techniques, and large-scale storage systems like Ceph or HDFS is preferred.