Job Description
- Write a significant amount of code for new and existing databases and related systems
- Scale and own these backend systems and databases
- Ship high-quality code and architecture
- Mentor engineers on the team, developing their skills and helping advance their careers
- Work with the founders to flesh out the future of the product
- Help shape the future of our engineering organization
Requirements
- A passion for working on deeply technical projects and wanting to work on distributed systems, concurrency & parallelism, replication protocols, file systems & correctness
- You have been building applications for 5+ years with C/C++ or Rust and have significant backend, database, or systems-level programming experience
- You have a BS/MS/Ph.D. in a scientific field or equivalent experience
- You want to work in a fast-paced, high-growth startup environment that respects its engineers and customers
- You are comfortable working with a 100% distributed engineering team, collaborating on GitHub, Slack, Zoom, etc. in the open and as a self-starter
Bonus points:
- Experience working on databases or other storage systems internals
- Experience with Apache Arrow, Apache Parquet
- Know how columnar databases work
- Know how to convert an algorithm to use SIMD instructions
- Good knowledge of Linux internals
- You’ve contributed to open-source libraries and actively participate in the development community (blogging, giving talks, meetups, tweeting, etc.)
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