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Staff Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals

Permanentonsite5+ yrs📍 San Francisco, California, 🇺🇸 United States🗣 English

Senior database engine specialist designing next-generation query and storage systems.

Build foundational query compilation, execution, and storage infrastructure for a unified data platform competing with traditional data warehouses. This role demands deep expertise in distributed systems, database internals, and performance optimization, with opportunities to influence architecture across query planning, vectorized execution, transactions, and physical data layout. Requires 8+ years in systems engineering or databases; PhD preferred but not required.

Tech stack
Apache SparkQuery optimizationDistributed systemsStorage systems
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Found at a specialist agency · listed 28 August 2026 · InsideJobs links you to the original posting.