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Cloud Software Engineer - Database

TP-Link Systems Inc.

Irvine, CA • On-site

Full-time

Medical, Dental, Vision, Retirement

Posted 25 days ago

Key responsibilities

  • Design, build, and evolve cloud-native infrastructure storage platforms that support distributed databases, middleware systems, and large-scale data services.

  • Drive automation for infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, CI/CD pipelines, observability, and operational workflows using tools such as Terraform, Ansible, Go, and Python.

  • Collaborate with DBA, application engineering, SRE, architecture, and platform teams to standardize storage infrastructure capabilities and support the evolution of database and storage platforms.

Job description

ABOUT US:
Headquartered 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.
We 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.
Embracing 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.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
  • Design, build, and continuously evolve cloud-native infrastructure storage platforms that support distributed databases, middleware systems, and large-scale data services.
  • Design scalable and reliable storage platform capabilities, including data placement, sharding, replication, indexing, compaction, compression, validation, backup, and recovery frameworks.
  • Build infrastructure storage solutions by integrating and extending open-source database, storage, and middleware technologies to meet enterprise-grade platform requirements.
  • Drive 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.
  • Develop reusable platform components and standardized storage capabilities that enable application teams and database teams to efficiently manage large-scale distributed data systems.
  • Work 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.
  • Partner with DBAs to design and improve database underlying capabilities, including storage format optimization, indexing strategy, data partitioning, compaction policy, backup architecture, and recovery design.
  • Evaluate architecture trade-offs across performance, scalability, availability, consistency, cost, and operational complexity for distributed storage and database platforms.
  • Design and implement performance optimization solutions across storage engines, system I/O, network communication, resource scheduling, and distributed data-processing paths.
  • Build observability, diagnostics, and automation capabilities as part of the platform design to improve system transparency, troubleshooting efficiency, and engineering productivity.
  • Collaborate 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.

Requirements
REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Bachelor's degree or above in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related field.
  • 3+ years of experience in backend engineering, cloud infrastructure, distributed systems, database systems, storage infrastructure, or related areas.
  • Solid understanding of distributed system principles, including CAP, BASE, replication, sharding, load balancing, failure detection, consistency models, and fault tolerance.
  • Hands-on experience designing or building distributed databases, storage systems, middleware platforms, message queues, or large-scale data-processing systems.
  • Strong understanding of storage engine or database internals, including B+-tree, LSM-tree, indexing, compaction, compression, data validation, and storage optimization.
  • Experience building platform-level capabilities or reusable infrastructure components for database, storage, or data-processing systems.
  • Proficiency in at least one programming language such as Go, Java, C++, Python, or Rust.
  • Hands-on experience with Ansible (playbooks, roles, inventory management, idempotent task design) and using it to automate database or distributed-system operational workflows at scale.
  • Solid knowledge of Linux systems, networking fundamentals, file systems, I/O performance, and distributed system troubleshooting.
  • Ability to work closely with DBA teams and translate database requirements into infrastructure platform design and technical solutions.
  • Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to analyze complex performance, scalability, and reliability challenges in distributed systems.
  • Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS
  • Experience with cloud-native infrastructure, Kubernetes, containerized platforms, or cloud storage services.
  • Experience with open-source systems such as Cassandra, Kafka, Redis, MySQL, VictoriaMetrics, Loki, ELK or similar technologies.
  • Experience designing systems with high QPS, low latency, large-scale storage, or strict availability requirements.
  • Experience with multi-region architecture, cross-site disaster recovery design, active-active architecture, hot/cold standby, or automated failover solutions.
  • Experience partnering with DBA teams on database platform design, data governance, backup and recovery architecture, or storage-layer optimization.
  • Experience contributing to architecture reviews, technical design documents, platform standards, or infrastructure solution design.

Benefits
Salary range: TBD
  • Free snacks and drinks
  • Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance (partial coverage for dependents)
  • Contributions to 401k funds
  • Bi-annual reviews, and annual pay increases
  • Health and wellness benefits, including free gym membership
  • Quarterly team-building events

At 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. If you share our passion and connection to this mission, we welcome you to apply and join us in building a vibrant and inclusive team at TP-Link Systems Inc.
Please, no third-party agency inquiries, and we are unable to offer visa sponsorships at this time.

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