Distributed Systems Engineer Intern (Foster City)

As a distributed system engineer at Alluxio, you will take responsibility for building the Alluxio (also known as Tachyon) system. The work solves the most challenging problems in distributed systems, including building caching policy in large-scale Cloud environments, optimizing concurrency and locking mechanisms, building high availability distributed systems. 

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent practical experience in Computer Science or similar technical fields
• Software development experience in one or more general-purpose programming languages, including but not limited to - Java, C/C++, and Go
• Experience working with two or more from the following is a must: distributed and parallel systems, distributed storage systems, architecting large-scale software systems, and/or security software development
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills
• Good communication skills

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s, Ph.D. degree or equivalent practical experience in engineering, computer science, or other technical related fields
• Experience writing production-level code in Java, C/C++, or Go
• Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed. Willing to contribute to and/or maintain the open-source project
• Ability and desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative and iterative programming environment