What You’ll Be Doing
As a Senior Software Engineer, you'll be an integral part of our Platform Group—a hands-on team of seasoned engineers responsible for building and optimizing the critical low-level components that power our infrastructure. This includes the networking stack, storage systems, task scheduling framework, and other foundational systems.
As a Senior Software Engineer, You’ll
Play an active role in creating jaw-dropping designs, writing impressively efficient code, and conducting collaborative code review;
Share fresh ideas and architectural guidance for our core areas of distributed computing, high-performance storage, and cloud computing; and
Challenge our benchmarks with performance testing around IO and storage throughput.
Requirements
Mastery of low-level C/C++ development in Linux user space or kernel-space with a vast experience in performance-sensitive code
Extensive experience with networking concepts and protocols, including UDP, TCP, InfiniBand, Ethernet, and RDMA.
10+ years of hands-on experience with software development on Linux based systems
Experience working on complex and large-scale and/or distributed systems
It's Nice If You Have
Experience with DPDK, eBPF/XDP and libfabric
Knowledge of storage systems and SSDs (SPDK)
Prior involvement with deep networking (congestion control, bonding, VLAN, InfiniBand)
Kernel driver development know-how
Familiarity with storage concepts (SMB, NFS, S3, SSD, NVMe, Linux filesystems).
Experience with the development of highly-distributed systems.
Experience with memory management concepts and entities in a multiprocessing system (cache, shared memory, numa, huge pages etc.)
The WEKA Way
We are Brave: We question the status quo, push boundaries, and take smart risks when needed. We welcome challenges and embrace debates as opportunities for growth, turning courage into fuel for innovation.
We are Collaborative: True collaboration isn’t only about working together. It’s about lifting one another up to succeed collectively. We are team-oriented and communicate with empathy and respect. We challenge each other and conduct positive conflict resolution. We are being transparent about our goals and results. And together, we’re unstoppable.
We are Customer Centric: Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. We actively listen and prioritize the success of our customers, and every decision we make is driven by how we can better serve, support, and empower them to succeed. When our customers win, we win.
Concerned that you don’t meet every qualification above?
Studies have shown that women and people of color may be less likely to apply for jobs if they don’t meet every qualification specified. At WEKA, we are committed to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace. If you are excited about this position but are concerned that your past work experience doesn’t match up perfectly with the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway – you may be just the right candidate for this or other roles at WEKA.
WEKA is an equal opportunity employer that prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. We provide equal opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.
