Staff Software Engineer, Replication Foundations

Role summary

Responsibilities

• Evolve replication architecture from problem definition through rollout and operational support.
• Design protocols for High Availability namespaces, cross-cluster and cross-region replication, and cluster migration.
• Drive scalability and reliability work, including multi-cell namespaces, multi-cluster namespaces, load distribution, and hot-spot handling.
• Define guarantees for consistency, ordering, idempotency, failure recovery, performance, and operations.
• Shape the technical roadmap and align replication foundations with product and customer needs.
• Lead design reviews, improve implementation and testing practices, mentor engineers, and provide technical guidance.
• Debug production issues, respond to incidents, and deliver follow-up improvements.

What you'll bring

• Track record delivering complex production distributed systems where correctness, availability, and performance matter.
• Deep understanding of replication, partitioning, consistency, fault tolerance, durability, concurrency, and failure recovery.
• Experience defining architecture, protocol behavior, invariants, and trade-offs.
• Production debugging experience with concurrency bugs, inconsistent data, partial failures, and performance bottlenecks.
• Proficiency in production-quality concurrent Go; Java, C++, or similar systems languages are welcome.
• Strong communication, cross-team influence, alignment-building, and mentoring abilities.
• Curiosity about system behavior under load, failure, and changing workload conditions.

Preferred experience

• Replication protocols, data-plane infrastructure, multi-cluster or multi-region systems, including active-active or active-passive architectures.
• Database internals, log-based replication, event-sourced systems, or contributions to large open-source projects or distributed-systems infrastructure.

Compensation

• Compensation range: $169,600–$278,250 per year.