Senior Software Engineer (Storage)

DescriptionKforce has a client in Secaucus, NJ that is seeking a Senior Software Engineer (Storage).Summary:The ideal candidate will possess deep expertise in backend development, distributed systems architecture, data consistency models, replication strategies, fault tolerance, and cloud-native technologies. You should be able to articulate real-world experience designing storage solutions and explain concepts such as consistency guarantees, replication behavior, sharding, and distributed system scalability.Key Responsibilities:* Design, develop, and maintain high-performance, scalable, and reliable backend services supporting distributed storage platforms* Build solutions that address data availability, consistency, replication, and fault tolerance requirements* Participate in architecture discussions and contribute to system design decisions for distributed systems* Troubleshoot complex production issues, perform root cause analysis, and provide operational support* Participate in on-call rotations and support critical production systems* Collaborate with globally distributed engineering teams across multiple time zones* Optimize system reliability, performance, and scalability through continuous improvement initiatives* Develop and maintain RPC-based services and high-throughput backend componentsRequirements* Expert-level backend development experience using Rust* Working knowledge of Golang, Java, and Python* Familiarity with C/C++ and the ability to understand and troubleshoot systems built in these languages* Experience delivering production-grade services in large-scale environmentsDirect experience building, designing, or operating distributed storage systems or storage platform components, including:* Data consistency models and associated trade-offs* Replication strategies and fault tolerance mechanisms* Data partitioning and sharding architectures* Routing, resharding, and scalability approaches* Distributed systems behavior under failure scenarios* High-availability storage system design principlesStrong foundation in Data Structures and Algorithms:* Trees, graphs, hash tables, heaps* Dynamic programming* Algorithmic problem solvingProven experience designing:* Distributed systems* Highly available services* Scalable backend architectures* Fault-tolerant platformsDeep understanding of:* Multi-threading* Asynchronous programming* Concurrency models* Thread synchronization patterns* Performance optimization in concurrent systemsExperience designing and implementing RPC-based services using technologies such as:* gRPC* Apache Thrift* REST APIs alone do not satisfy this requirementService discovery solutions such as:* Consul* ZooKeeperService mesh technologies such as:* Envoy* Istio* IPv6 networking concepts and implementation* Microservices and distributed service environmentsJob TypeContractCompensation68 - $78