High-Performance KV Storage Engineer

ByteDance; San Jose (CA); On-site; USD 162,000 - 317,000; Full time

Job summary

ByteDance's LavaStore team builds and maintains a purpose-built local storage engine for large-scale cloud services. You will design high-performance KV storage engines, optimize for low latency and high throughput, and collaborate with teams to meet diverse storage requirements.

The team operates at massive scale with global impact. As a member of the Technology group in San Jose, you will contribute to production-grade storage innovations, explore novel architectures, and own end-to-end design

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electrical Engineering or related majors.
• Strong problem analysis, conceptual abstraction and design skills; proficient in C/C++, familiar with Python/Shell or similar languages.
• Proficient in systems programming, including system calls and library functions, network/multithreaded programming models, debugging, and IO performance tuning tools and techniques.
• In-depth understanding of storage system architectures and principles (LSM Tree, file systems, etc.).
• Solid understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including consensus, replication, consistency models, and fault tolerance.
• Excellent communication, teamwork and eagerness to learn new technologies.

Responsibilities

• Participate in the design and implementation of high-performance KV storage engines and file systems for large-scale distributed storage & database system backends.
• Explore the design and evolution of next-generation KV storage engine architectures to ensure low latency and high throughput.
• Deeply understand storage requirements across business scenarios, and collaborate with business teams to find the most suitable storage solutions.

Skills

C/C++

Python/Shell

Systems programming

Storage architectures

Distributed systems

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's degree or higher in CS/CE/EE

Tools

RocksDB

LevelDB

Redis

Memcached

Cachelib

Job description

ByteDance's LavaStore team builds and maintains a purpose-built local storage engine for large-scale cloud services. You will design high-performance KV storage engines, optimize for low latency and high throughput, and collaborate with teams to meet diverse storage requirements.

The team operates at massive scale with global impact. As a member of the Technology group in San Jose, you will contribute to production-grade storage innovations, explore novel architectures, and own end-to-end design