Staff Software Engineer
Core
Build and evolve the core query engine infrastructure (Nova) for an AI analytics platform, optimizing performance, cost, and reliability for high-throughput automated queries from AI agents.
Role type
Staff Software Engineer (Distributed Systems/OLAP)
Builds
Nova, an in-house OLAP engine processing trillions of events in real time
Domain
Data Infrastructure / Distributed Systems / Cloud Computing
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Distributed systems design, OLAP engine development, Columnar storage, JVM performance optimization, Cloud infrastructure (AWS/K8s), Java/C++/Python
Preferred skills
Druid/ClickHouse/Presto experience, Arrow/Parquet formats, Product analytics platforms, Open-source data infrastructure contributions
Technologies
Java, C++, Python, AWS (S3, DynamoDB, EC2), Kafka, Redis, Kubernetes, Terraform, Parquet, Arrow
Responsibilities
Design and implement query execution engine capabilities, optimize infrastructure cost and latency, strengthen system reliability and incident response, mentor senior engineers on distributed systems
Seniority
Staff, technical leadership & mentorship
