Principal Engineer, Database Engine

Position Overview
The SingleStore database engine team is responsible for building the core database engine behind SingleStore. This includes developing in-memory and on-disk data structures and algorithms, row and columnar stores, networking, query optimization, and execution.

As a principal software engineer on the database engine team, you will have the unique benefit of building systems software in a rapid production environment with a small and collaborative team. This includes overseeing the direction, design and development of key features that can be attributed to just a handful of engineers. In this position, you will be empowered to leverage your technical, leadership, and business acumen while mentoring other engineers who are eager to learn from you.

Role and Responsibilities

Leads technical decisions and provides strong technical leadership for large, release-defining projects
Solves complex, mission critical problems with an approach that lasts
Skilled at investigating difficult problems in parallel with other responsibilities
Effectively communicates complex technical issues and decisions and their impact on business value to audiences both inside and outside the company
Mentor and train other team members on design techniques, coding standards, and empowers engineers to achieve a higher level of performance.
Actively participate in customer POCs to optimize customer experience and adoption.
Work collaboratively with multiple departments such as Sales, Marketing, G&A.
Required Skills and Experience
At least seven years of experience developing and debugging in system level C/C++, particularly on Linux
Background in database internals or building core components for large scale data processing systems (i.e. Hadoop, Spark) especially query execution/processing, and/or optimization.
Experience with storage formats (i.e. Parquet, ORC, avro, iceberg), encodings and/or indexing structures.
Experience with cloud technologies and building cloud-native Saas is a plus.
Passionate about building highly reliable system software
B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a similar field
Benefits

Company Wide
Technology Stipend for New Employees
Monthly Cell Phone and Internet Stipend
Health and Wellness benefit
In office catered lunches and monthly Grubhub credit
Company and team events
Flexible time off
Volunteer time off
Stock Options
Country Specific (if applicable)
HealthBenefits
Retirement
As employees are located in many different countries around the world, some benefits may differ from country to country. In all cases, we do our best to provide equitable perks and benefits across our locations.

Other:

Employment Status: Full Time Employment
Work Authorization: Eligibility to work for a US based employer
Location/Working classification: Hybrid Role/Remote – Canada/United States
SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.