Senior Staff Engineer
Core
Company-level technical leader for InfluxDB 3.0, shaping technical vision, architecture, and engineering best practices for a distributed time series database.
Role type
Senior Staff Software Engineer (Company-level IC)
Builds
InfluxDB 3.0 storage engine and distributed data platform
Domain
Distributed systems, time series databases, cloud infrastructure
Required skills
Rust, distributed systems, cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure), object storage, caching, reliability engineering, technical strategy, mentorship
Preferred skills
Time series/observability workloads, managed cloud services, published talks/papers on databases
Technologies
Rust, Apache Arrow, Arrow Flight, DataFusion, AWS, Azure, GCP
Responsibilities
Shape long-term technical vision for InfluxDB 3.0; design and write production Rust for the storage engine; set engineering standards across multiple teams; mentor staff and senior engineers; participate in on-call rotation.
Seniority
Senior Staff, company-wide reach
