Principal Software Engineer - Remote

Overview

The SingleStore database engine team is responsible for building the core database engine behind SingleStore. This includes developing in-memory and on-disk data structures and algorithms, row and columnar stores, networking, query optimization, and execution.

As a principal software engineer on the database engine team, you will have the unique benefit of building systems software in a rapid production environment with a small and collaborative team. This includes overseeing the direction, design and development of key features that can be attributed to just a handful of engineers. In this position, you will be empowered to leverage your technical, leadership, and business acumen while mentoring other engineers who are eager to learn from you.

In Short

• Leads technical decisions and provides strong technical leadership for large, release-defining projects
• Solves complex, mission critical problems with an approach that lasts
• Skilled at investigating difficult problems in parallel with other responsibilities
• Effectively communicates complex technical issues and decisions and their impact on business value to audiences both inside and outside the company
• Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards, and empowers engineers to achieve a higher level of performance.
• Actively participate in customer POCs to optimize customer experience and adoption.
• Work collaboratively with multiple departments such as Sales, Marketing, G&A.

Requirements

• At least seven years of experience developing and debugging in system level C/C++, particularly on Linux
• Background in database internals or building core components for large scale data processing systems (i.e. Hadoop, Spark) especially query execution/processing, and/or optimization.
• Experience with storage formats (i.e. Parquet, ORC, avro, iceberg), encodings and/or indexing structures.
• Experience with cloud technologies and building cloud-native Saas is a plus.
• Passionate about building highly reliable system software
• B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a similar field

Benefits

• Company Wide
• Technology Stipend for New Employees
• Monthly Cell Phone and Internet Stipend
• Health and Wellness benefit
• In office catered lunches and monthly Grubhub credit
• Company and team events
• Flexible time off
• Volunteer time off
• Stock Options
• Country Specific (if applicable)
• HealthBenefits
• Retirement