WEKA · 1 day ago
Senior Software Engineer, Filesystem (Boston, MA)
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level, Lead/Staff
8+ years expWEKA is a pre-IPO, growth-stage company focused on transforming enterprise data infrastructure with its cloud and AI-native software solutions. The Senior Software Engineer will be responsible for designing and developing components of the distributed file system, ensuring data management features and optimal performance.
Artificial Intelligence (AI)Cloud StorageData CenterData ManagementSoftware
Responsibilities
Design and develop distributed file system components to support data management features such as snapshots, replication, tiering, and advanced data reduction algorithms
Participate in the design, architecture, and implementation of next-generation storage architecture
Assist in technically managing initial storage implementations including proofs-of-concept
Diagnose bottlenecks and implement clean and performant solutions to achieve unbeatable performance
Design algorithms and data structures to make sure customer data is safe and coherent across our solution in a wide variety of failure modes
Constantly revisit the architecture, algorithms, and methodologies to improve productivity, reliability, and maintainability
Qualification
Required
Mastery of low-level and performant programming in C or C++/ Rust
A thorough understanding of concurrency, inter-process communication, threading models, and synchronization concepts, including significant experience with complex multithreaded software design
Experience identifying, reproducing, and resolving complex software defects, including root cause isolation, tracing through large source codebases, and implementing long-term fixes as well as short-term workarounds
8+ years of hands-on experience with Linux development and debugging, along with a broad knowledge and understanding of Linux internals
Preferred
Experience in data-path design and development
Experience with development of highly-distributed systems
Deep familiarity with concepts and features from the storage industry, including snapshots, replication, transparent data migration, and data reduction techniques
Experience with ZFS, XFS, or other file systems or with enterprise storage solutions
Experience working with the Linux filesystem community
Contribution, upstreaming, or maintaining of filesystem code
Experience playing a significant role in the implementation of a concurrent, long-running performant server
Company
WEKA
WEKA is a global data platform company that delivers a cloud-native, software-based data platform for AI & next-generation workloads
201-500 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$415.1MKey Investors
Valor Equity PartnersGeneration Investment ManagementHitachi Ventures
2024-05-15Series E· $140M
2022-11-15Series D· $135M
2021-08-20Series C· $73.1M
Leadership Team
Liran Zvibel
Co-Founder,CEO
Amit Pandey
Executive Chairman
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