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Senior Software Engineer, Database (SmithDB)

San Francisco, CA💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-05-13 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design, optimize, and harden a distributed storage and query layer for AI observability and evaluation, scaling to trillions of agent traces.

Role type

Senior IC systems/database engineer

Builds

Distributed database services for agent observability data

Domain

AI infrastructure, distributed systems, storage systems

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Rust, systems programming, database internals, performance profiling, distributed systems, cloud object storage integration, Kubernetes

Preferred skills

Query engines, storage systems, indexing, compaction, async runtimes, networking, OS concepts

Technologies

Rust, Kubernetes, S3, GCS, Azure Blob

Responsibilities

Engineer performant Rust code for ingestion and query execution; Optimize for cost and speed using memory and CPU profiling; Integrate tightly with cloud object stores; Deploy distributed database services on Kubernetes; Contribute to observability for the storage engine

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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