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title: 'Staff Software Quality Engineer at Alluxio'
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# Staff Software Quality Engineer at Alluxio

- **Company:** Alluxio
- **Location:** China
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-07-13
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-10
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/alluxio/a0d500d8-5849-4519-aa5e-454d1130370b

## Job description

As a Staff Software Quality Engineer in the Alluxio QA team, you will be responsible for various aspects of delivering the Alluxio project as a product into the hands of our users. You’ll be involved from beginning to end of the development process, from understanding the motivations behind the issues to solve with the product team, designing and implementing solutions with other engineers, and supporting the features and tools after they are deployed. The ability to learn and execute independently while operating in cloud-based environments is a must to keep up with the fast paced growth.

Responsibillity: In this role you will provide technical leadership for the quality organization. Ensure the quality, performance, and reliability of Alluxio’s critical use cases that involve integrations with an enormous number of storage systems and compute frameworks. You will be driving the development of end-to-end integration tests, automation frameworks, and tools to have robust automated testing pipelines for Alluxio.

This is a hands-on role in which you will design and implement comprehensive testing frameworks while taking on a technical leadership role, improving productivity of our development/QE teams and bringing standardization to our processes and practices. You will author and enhance Test plans based on feature requirements and specifications, as well as technical discussions and deep dives with engineers. Partner with customer facing people such as PMs,SEs, Engineering to better understand how customers interface and use our product and to investigate, troubleshoot and identify fixes for customer facing issues. This an awesome opportunity to work with cutting edge technology in a highly visible role.

Essential Requirements： BS or Master degree in Computer Science, similar technical field of study or equivalent practical experience. 8+ years of software development experience in Golang, Python and/or Java, or similar languages, have in-depth understanding of distributed system design and architecture, and challenges. 4+ years of relevant experience in Quality Engineering, specifically Automation Testing, End-to-end testing, Test Framework development as a Testing Lead.

## Experience in Agent-driven test framework and automation

Experience delivering quality software in a large distributed system with emphasis on functional and performance automation, workloads and testing. In-depth knowledge and understanding of standard quality best practices, techniques and methodologies to drive continuous quality improvements. Experience with continuous integration / continuous deployment systems like Jenkins. Experience working with software development on Linux systems. Familiarity with cloud providers (ex. AWS, GCP, Azure). Working proficiency and communication skills in verbal and written English.

Desirable Requirements： Experience designing, developing, and maintaining Test Automation Frameworks High proficiency coding in Golang, Python and/or Java preferred. Interest and ability to learn other coding languages as needed. Experience contributing to and/or maintaining an open source project. Ability and desire to work in a fast paced, collaborative and iterative programming environment. A contributor to Alluxio.

## About Alluxio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Alluxio provides a high-performance distributed caching platform that accelerates AI and data-intensive workloads across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C)
- **Headquarters**: San Mateo, California, United States
- **Founded**: 2015
- **Founders**: Haoyuan "H.Y." Li

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: AI Data Infrastructure, High-Performance Data Caching
- **Target customers**: B2B; AI and Data Platform teams at large internet companies, enterprises, and organizations running AI/ML workloads
- **Mission or purpose statement**: To empower all AI and data teams to unlock the full potential of their data and drive innovation — freeing developers to focus on creating business impact without being burdened by concerns about data access, storage, or infrastructure complexity.

## Products & Services
- **Alluxio AI Acceleration Platform**: A high-throughput, low-latency distributed caching layer that sits between compute (model training, inference servers, feature stores) and persistent storage (cloud/S3, data lakes, HDFS, NFS). It accelerates the full AI lifecycle — from data preparation to training to inference — without requiring data migration, code rewrites, or workflow changes. Supports S3 API, POSIX, and Python, and works across single, multi, hybrid, and on-premises cloud environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not publicly available (private company)
- **Key Metric**: Annual Revenue of $25M (estimated); Total Funding of $73M
- **Notable Investors/Partners**:
    - Andreessen Horowitz (led Series A and Series B)
    - Hillhouse Investment (led Series C)
    - Seven Seas Partners (led Series B)
    - Volcanics Venture (participated in Series B)
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Powers nine of the world’s top ten internet companies.
    - Estimated headcount of 67 employees (-5.1% YoY), with offices in the US, China, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Chile.
    - Customers achieve sub-millisecond time-to-first-byte (TTFB) latency and over a TB/sec of throughput.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Data Caching, Not Storage**: Alluxio acts as a transparent acceleration layer — it doesn’t replace existing storage, avoiding vendor lock-in or data migration.
- **AI-Native & Cloud-Agnostic**: Purpose-built for deep learning frameworks (PyTorch, TensorFlow, Spark, Ray) and works out-of-the-box with any cloud, on-prem, or hybrid setup.
- **Developer-Friendly**: Requires no code changes, workflow modifications, or replatforming — built-in support for S3 API, POSIX, and Python means teams adopt it with zero friction.
- **Hard Moat**: Institutional trust — nine of the world’s top ten internet companies rely on the platform, creating steep switching costs and defensive network effects.

## Strategic Focus
- Doubling down on AI acceleration as the primary growth vector, bridging the gap between GPU scarcity and data access latency.
- Continued investment in hybrid and multi-cloud compatibility to serve enterprises with complex infrastructure footprints.
- Growing engineering headcount in distributed systems and AI infrastructure, with open roles for Senior Software Engineers in both the US (Foster City, CA) and China (Beijing/Shanghai).

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Described by employees as collaborative, supportive, and innovative, with a leadership team that is open and values work-life balance.
- **Hybrid & Remote**: Roles are offered in hybrid (Foster City, CA), on-site (Beijing/Shanghai), and some remote arrangements depending on the function.
- **Perks**:
    - Flexible vacation policy
    - Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage
    - Commute reimbursement (monthly stipend)
    - Paid parental leave
    - Daily lunch, dinner, and weekly boba in the Foster City office
    - Unlimited snacks and drinks in the office
    - Monthly team bonding events and celebrations
- **Engineering culture**: Positions emphasize working on foundational distributed systems that power AI innovation; team is described as world-class and highly skilled.

## Sources
1. [alluxio.io - About](https://www.alluxio.io/about)
2. [alluxio.io - Careers](https://www.alluxio.io/careers)
3. [jobs.lever.co/alluxio](https://jobs.lever.co/alluxio)
4. [alluxio.io - Home](https://www.alluxio.io/?lang=en)
5. [linkedin.com/company/alluxio-inc-](https://www.linkedin.com/company/alluxio-inc-)

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