Software Engineer, Database Systems
230k – 385kSan Francisco, CAOnsite4+ YOE
Summary
Builds and optimizes high-performance distributed database systems like Rockset, focusing on ingestion, query execution, indexing, and storage. Requires 4+ years experience in scalable systems, C++ proficiency, and cloud expertise to enhance reliability and throughput at massive scale.
About the role
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure to the next order of magnitude
- Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution
- Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure
- Dig deep into complex production issues across the stack
- Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and best practices for system reliability
Requirements
- 4+ years of relevant industry experience, with 2+ years leading large scale, complex projects or teams as an engineer or tech lead
- Experience with distributed systems at scale, with a strong focus on performance, reliability, and scalability
- Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate across highly technical and cross-functional teams
- Proficiency in a systems programming language such as C++ (our core engine is written in C++) is strongly preferred
- Fluency in cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure) and IaC tools (Terraform or similar)
- Experience with Linux systems, CI/CD pipelines, and modern observability stacks (Prometheus, Grafana, etc.)
Nice-to-Haves
- Domain knowledge in areas such as databases, data systems, storage engines, indexing, and query processing
Skills
C++Distributed SystemsKubernetesAWSGCPAzureTerraformLinuxPrometheusGrafanaCI/CDStorage EnginesIndexingQuery Processing
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