Software Engineer
Develop and improve Ray Core’s C++ distributed-systems backend, focusing on performance, reliability, fault tolerance, and scalability. The role requires at least five years of experience with distributed systems, C/C++, low-level operating systems, algorithms, and system design.
About the job
Responsibilities
- Lead cross-team projects and mentor junior team members.
- Develop high-quality open-source software for distributed programming in Ray.
- Identify, implement, and evaluate architectural improvements to Ray Core.
- Improve Ray’s testing processes and release smoothness.
- Communicate technical work through talks, tutorials, and blog posts.
- Contribute to performance optimization, stability and stress-testing infrastructure, and high-availability fault tolerance.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of relevant professional experience.
- Experience building scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems.
- Extensive experience with C/C++ and low-level operating systems.
- Strong background in algorithms, data structures, and system design.
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of distributed model training and inference, including tensor parallelism and pipeline parallelism.
- Knowledge of GPU programming.
Skills
C++, C, Distributed Systems, Operating Systems, Algorithms, Data Structures, System Design, Gpu Programming, Model Training, Model Inference
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