Senior Systems Engineer, Database
Core
Build and evolve Pangolin, a custom tree-native streaming analytics database handling terabytes of daily customer data, focusing on on-disk storage formats, query optimization, and cross-table joins.
Role type
Senior Systems Engineer, Database
Builds
Pangolin (a bespoke analytical database with disaggregated storage/compute, Lambda-based processing, and S3-backed storage)
Domain
Database systems, streaming analytics, distributed systems
Deliverable
production ML models | product features
Required skills
Rust, systems programming (memory, concurrency, performance), data structures and algorithms, backend engineering, database internals
Preferred skills
large-scale distributed backend systems, performance optimization, Linux internals, V8, AWS (S3 & Lambda)
Technologies
Rust, Lambda, S3, V8, Linux
Responsibilities
Build and evolve Pangolin's core architecture; collaborate with internal customers (notebook/UI teams) to define priorities and deliver features; work with Infrastructure team on deployment and reliability; write design docs and contribute to long-term technical direction
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC
