Staff+ Software Engineer, Caching

Skills

About the Role

You will set the technical direction for caching infrastructure. You will design, build, and operate a managed Redis fleet, client libraries, CDC-driven cache invalidation, multi-cloud caching solutions, and observability tooling while optimizing performance, reliability, and cost.

Requirements

• Significant experience building and operating production distributed systems
• Deep knowledge of caching architectures, invalidation strategies, consistency tradeoffs, and failure modes
• Experience operating Redis, Memcached, or similar in-memory data stores in production
• Proficiency in Go, Rust, Java, C++, or Python at scale
• Experience leading large complex infrastructure projects as an engineer or tech lead
• Ability to balance delivery speed with production reliability
• Technical leadership and cross-functional collaboration skills
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent education, training, or experience

Responsibilities

• Drive technical direction for caching infrastructure
• Design, build, and operate a managed Redis fleet
• Build client libraries and developer-facing caching abstractions
• Design and operate CDC-driven cache invalidation
• Architect caching solutions across cloud and first-party environments
• Optimize latency, hit rates, reliability, and cost efficiency
• Build cache observability and debugging tooling
• Partner with product and research teams on access patterns
• Make build-versus-buy decisions for caching technologies

Benefits

• Optional equity donation matching
• Generous vacation
• Parental leave
• Flexible working hours