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Staff Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals

San Francisco, California💼 Full-time💰 $192,000–$192,000🗓 2026-04-09 → 2026-09-25

Core

Design and implement next-generation decoupled query engines and structured storage systems to unify data warehousing and advanced analytics.

Role type

Staff Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals

Builds

High-performance query execution engines, vectorized execution, and efficient storage structures for the Lakehouse platform.

Domain

Data Engineering / Distributed Systems / Database Internals

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Database systems, storage systems, distributed systems, language design, performance optimization

Preferred skills

Multi-year vision planning, customer value delivery, PhD in databases or distributed systems

Technologies

Apache Spark, Delta Lake

Responsibilities

Query compilation and optimization, Distributed query execution and scheduling, Vectorized execution engine development, Data security implementation, Resource management, Transaction coordination, Efficient storage structures design, Automatic physical data optimization

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