Senior Software Engineer, Storage Platform
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Atomic HRCloud storage
Mexico, Coordinating, problem-solving, and communicating across time zones dailyContractSenior
Salary$50K–$90K base (location/market-adjusted) plus ~10% bonus
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Job Details
- Languages
- English (strong enough for deep technical conversations)
- Required Skills
- JavaC#C++RustSoftware EngineeringDistributed Systems
Requirements
- Bring strong software engineering fundamentals and comfort operating lower in the stack.
- Have experience with complex systems where performance, reliability, and cost matter.
- Be able to work through ambiguity and navigate limited signals and multiple possible causes.
- Communicate and collaborate in English well enough for deep technical conversations.
- Be proficient in Java or have meaningful experience in an adjacent language such as C, C++, C#, or Rust.
- Have a track record of shipping in environments where engineering decisions have downstream consequences.
- Hardware experience or systems experience closely coupled to hardware behavior is a bonus.
- Exposure to Rust or interest in developing Rust skills is a bonus.
- Breadth across different systems and project types is a bonus.
Responsibilities
- Build and evolve a storage platform operating at cloud scale with exabyte-level storage and durability constraints.
- Optimize for hard drive and hardware characteristics to improve throughput and reduce error rates across hardware failure modes.
- Troubleshoot ambiguous, symptom-driven problems with limited signal and unclear root causes.
- Contribute to architectural upgrades supporting the platform over the next 5–10 years, including emerging storage technologies.
- Take ownership of stack components where general-purpose tools are no longer a good fit.
- Improve hardware utilization and efficiency as the business grows and scale increases.
- Collaborate with a distributed team, coordinating and communicating across time zones.
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