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Sr. Staff Engineer - Data Path

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29 days ago
Santa Clara, CA, USAStaff+

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement, and optimize core data path components in large-scale distributed systems.
  • Develop maintainable, performance-critical systems software primarily in C/C++ or similar languages.
  • Analyze and optimize data movement across CPU, memory, storage, and network layers.
  • Identify bottlenecks and establish performance baselines through profiling, benchmarking, and tuning.
  • Lead design reviews, influence system architecture, and provide guidance on complex technical challenges.
  • Mentor senior and mid-level engineers on systems design, performance engineering, and best practices.
  • Collaborate with platform, infrastructure, quality engineering, product management, solutions, and customer engineering teams.
  • Promote code quality, testing, observability, documentation, and effective incident analysis.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent experience.
  • 12+ years of experience in systems software, distributed systems, or infrastructure engineering.
  • Strong experience designing and implementing performance-critical software components.
  • Proficiency in C/C++ or similar systems programming languages.
  • Solid understanding of operating systems, concurrency, memory management, and networking concepts.
  • Ability to work independently on complex technical problems and influence system-level outcomes.

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