Core Database Engineer Remote
Job description
About QuestDB
We have built the fastest open source time series database from the ground up to offer breakthrough performance for real-time analytics. We bring experience and technical approaches in low-latency trading to make SQL for time series fast and efficient.
Developers rely on QuestDB as the analytic backbone of real-time systems ranging from financial services to machine learning, IoT, and application monitoring. Fortune 500 companies such as Verizon deploy QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems, some of which serve close to a billion users. We are an ambitious and fast-growing organization working within the fastest-developing database category.
We are a remote-first company backed by leading venture capital firms and Y Combinator.
The role
As a Core Database Engineer, you will bring your experience in architecture, design, and testing to build new and improve existing components of our in-house database management engine. You will use C++, Java and Assembler programming languages. You will continuously improve the performance across all components, ensuring that QuestDB remains scalable and easy to use as we roll out new features built with C++ and Java (zero-GC). You will have the opportunity to interact with and gather feedback from QuestDB's growing community of users and contributors. You'll have the chance to work in an open, friendly and collaborative environment to improve user experience and the system's consistency along the way.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience building low-level components of database engines or components of operating system, virtualisation components, network servers, components of financial trading infrastructure
- A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages, in particular Java and C/C++.
- Good understanding of core Java 11, threading, generics, garbage collection and serialization.
- Experience building relationships with other engineers of the team and being part of the review process.
- Ability to analyze Java core/thread dumps to resolve issues such as memory leaks and latency.
- Ability to communicate well
What we offer
- Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues and a friendly and agile environment
- Freedom of choice for your technical equipment (Mac or Linux or Windows)
- Equity options for employees
- Flexible working hours
- A supportive, collaborative & inclusive culture
- Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow
Working at QuestDB
We hire talented and passionate people who share our mission to empower developers to solve their problems with data. We are building breakthrough technology to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.
- We are a company with thousands of users; our mission is to empower them.
- We invest in a culture that promotes ownership, autonomy and independent thinking.
- We have transparent leadership and value employees' strategic inputs.
- Our team is ambitious and tackles the most difficult problems at the deepest data infrastructure layer.
Job Type: Permanent
Salary: £80,000.00-£100,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- Work from home
Schedule:
- Monday to Friday
Education:
- Bachelor's (preferred)
Experience:
- Database Development: 1 year (preferred)
- SQL: 1 year (preferred)
- Software development: 4 years (preferred)
Language:
- English (preferred)
Work Location: Remote
