{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"751dd22f86d3c68a7d1927e6","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/751dd22f86d3c68a7d1927e6","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/751dd22f86d3c68a7d1927e6","title":"Cloud Software Engineer - Database","description":"ABOUT US\r\nHeadquartered in the United States, TP-Link Systems Inc. is a global provider of reliable networking devices and smart home products, consistently ranked as the world's top provider of Wi-Fi devices. The company is committed to delivering innovative products that enhance people's lives through faster, more reliable connectivity. With a commitment to excellence, TP-Link serves customers in over 170 countries and continues to grow its global footprint.\r\nWe believe technology changes the world for the better! At TP-Link Systems Inc, we are committed to crafting dependable, high-performance products to connect users worldwide with the wonders of technology.\r\nEmbracing professionalism, innovation, excellence, and simplicity, we aim to assist our clients in achieving remarkable global performance and enable consumers to enjoy a seamless, effortless lifestyle.\r\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\r\nDesign, build, and continuously evolve cloud-native infrastructure storage platforms that support distributed databases, middleware systems, and large-scale data services.\r\nDesign scalable and reliable storage platform capabilities, including data placement, sharding, replication, indexing, compaction, compression, validation, backup, and recovery frameworks.\r\nBuild infrastructure storage solutions by integrating and extending open-source database, storage, and middleware technologies to meet enterprise-grade platform requirements.\r\nDrive automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational workflows using Terraform, Ansible, Go, and Python, including authoring Ansible playbooks and roles that orchestrate database operational tasks across large fleets of distributed database nodes, covering provisioning, configuration, rolling upgrades, patching, backup/restore, and recovery.\r\nDevelop reusable platform components and standardized storage capabilities that enable application teams and database teams to efficiently manage large-scale distributed data systems.\r\nWork closely with DBA teams to understand database platform requirements, storage-layer constraints, performance bottlenecks, and data governance needs, and translate them into scalable infrastructure solutions.\r\nPartner with DBAs to design and improve database underlying capabilities, including storage format optimization, indexing strategy, data partitioning, compaction policy, backup architecture, and recovery design.\r\nEvaluate architecture trade-offs across performance, scalability, availability, consistency, cost, and operational complexity for distributed storage and database platforms.\r\nDesign and implement performance optimization solutions across storage engines, system I/O, network communication, resource scheduling, and distributed data-processing paths.\r\nBuild observability, diagnostics, and automation capabilities as part of the platform design to improve system transparency, troubleshooting efficiency, and engineering productivity.\r\nCollaborate with application engineering, DBA, SRE, architecture, and platform teams to standardize storage infrastructure capabilities and support the long-term evolution of the company's database and storage platforms.\r\nREQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS\r\nBachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.\r\n3+ years of experience in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database systems, storage infrastructure, or related areas.\r\nSolid understanding of distributed system principles, including CAP, BASE, replication, sharding, load balancing, failure detection, consistency models, and fault tolerance.\r\nHands-on experience designing or building distributed databases, storage systems, middleware platforms, message queues, or large-scale data-processing systems.\r\nStrong understanding of storage engine or database internals, including B-tree, LSM-tree, indexing, compaction, compression, data validation, and storage optimization.\r\nExperience building platform-level capabilities or reusable infrastructure components for database, storage, or data-processing systems.\r\nProficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Java, C++, Python, or Rust.\r\nHands-on experience with Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventory management, idempotent task design) and using it to automate database or distributed-system operational workflows at scale.\r\nSolid knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, file systems, I/O performance, and distributed system troubleshooting.\r\nAbility to work closely with DBA teams and translate database requirements into infrastructure platform design and technical solutions.\r\nStrong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex performance, scalability, and reliability challenges in distributed systems.\r\nStrong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.\r\nPREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS\r\nExperience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, containerized platforms, or cloud storage services.\r\nExperience with open-source systems such as Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, ELK or similar technologies.\r\nExperience designing systems with high QPS, low latency, large-scale storage, or strict availability requirements.\r\nExperience with multi-region architecture, cross-site disaster recovery design, active-active architecture, hot/cold standby, or automated failover solutions.\r\nExperience partnering with DBA teams on database platform design, data governance, backup and recovery architecture, or storage-layer optimization.\r\nExperience contributing to architecture reviews, technical design documents, platform standards, or infrastructure solution design.\r\nSALARY AND BENEFITS\r\nSalary range: TBD\r\nFree snacks and drinks\r\nFully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)\r\nContributions to 401k funds\r\nBi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases\r\nHealth and wellness benefits, including free gym membership\r\nQuarterly team-building events\r\nEEO STATEMENT\r\nAt TP-Link Systems Inc., we are continually searching for ambitious individuals who are passionate about their work. We believe that diversity fuels innovation, collaboration, and drives our entrepreneurial spirit. As a global company, we highly value diverse perspectives and are committed to cultivating an environment where all voices are heard, respected, and valued. We are dedicated to providing equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants, and we prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on 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. Beyond compliance, we strive to create a supportive and growth-oriented workplace for everyone. 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