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We are building an innovative data processing engine that is transforming how Apache Spark, Apache Flink, Ray and others operate on diverse, large-scale data. Our team of engineers drive and adopt advances in hardware-accelerated computing, parallel processing of large-scale data, query optimization, distributed systems, compilers, machine learning, and cloud-native computing. We are looking for specialists to join our engineering team and shape the future of accelerated data processing.\nThe Opportunity:\nAs a System Software Engineer, you will be a key individual contributor in advancing operating\nsystem level capabilities underlying DataPelago’s data processing engine. You will enhance functional breadth, performance, scale, and reliability of these OS-level services on diverse accelerated hardware platforms. This is a unique opportunity to make a significant impact on a category-defining product and work with a talented team of engineers.\nWhat You'll Do:\nArchitect: Influence the architecture of how our data processing engine harnesses and man-\nages the use of compute, memory, storage, and network resources.\nDesign: Lead design of functional and performance enhancements to OS-level capabilities\nunderlying our data processing engine such as concurrent event processing, memory management, and inter-process communication.\nCore Development: Individually design, implement, test, optimize, and maintain components of the data processing engine.\nInnovation and Differentiation: Analyze advances in system services provided by platforms\nand programming models for high-concurrency data processing on CPUs and GPUs (e.g.,\nRust, CUDA runtime) and identify opportunities for our engine to enhance technology and\nproduct leadership.\nCollaboration: Partner effectively with the execution engine engineering team in enhancing\nsystem software capabilities.\nContinuous Improvement: Foster best practices in design and code reviews, testing, CI/CD,\nand issue resolution to maintain highest product quality, security, efficiency, & productivity.\nWhat You'll Bring:\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 5+ years of relevant experience OR a Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 3+ years of relevant\nexperience.\n3+ years of deep technical experience in developing and delivering OS-level services such\nas task scheduling, memory management, interprocess communication, asynchronous event\nprocessing for production software or hardware platforms.\nDemonstrated experience in troubleshooting and resolving functional and performance\nanomalies in both pre- and post-production scenarios.\nStrong knowledge of operating system internals and computer architecture.\nExceptional programming skills in C, C++, and Rust.\nExtensive development experience in Linux environments.\nStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with a passion for performance optimization.\nLocation Considerations:\nWe value face-to-face collaboration, but recognize that talent can be found anywhere. Our engineering team works at our headquarters in Mountain View, CA, at our India office in Hyderabad, and at remote locations. 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