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On-siteBackend Engineering
About the role
Responsibilities
Design and implement in areas including:
Query compilation & optimization
Distributed query execution and scheduling
Vectorized engine execution
Data security
Resource Management
Transaction coordination
Efficient storage structures (encoding, indexes)
Automatic physical data optimization
Requirements
PhD in databases or systems
Passion for database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, and/or performance optimization
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