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Posted 21 Oct 2026

Staff Engineer - Database / Storage Platform

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Employment
Full time
Team
Software Engineering
Posted
21 Oct 2026

About the role

Responsibilities:

  • Design systems architecture and deliver software and tools to advance the reliability of infrastructure, including availability, performance, efficiency and scaling.
  • Provide technical leadership, influence and partner with fellow engineers to architect, design and build infrastructure that can stand the test of scale and availability, while reducing operational overhead.
  • Drive efficiencies in systems and processes through automation: capacity planning, configuration management, performance tuning, monitoring and root cause analysis.
  • Collaborate with platform, product and security engineering teams, enable successful use of infrastructure and foundational services, and manage upstream and downstream dependencies


Requirements:

  • More than 10 years of experience.
  • Very well versed in, or preferably a contributor to, any of the database technologies such as: MySQL, PostgreSQL, ClickHouse.
  • Worked on the internals of the database
  • Experience with Go, Java or C++.
  • Experience in developing distributed systems
  • Experience in dealing with vague and complex problems
  • Proven experience in identifying architectural gaps and creating org-wide frameworks that improve developer velocity and reduce systemic technical debt.
  • Demonstrated leadership in building strategic relationships with internal stakeholders and external partners to rally an organisation around a technical vision.
  • Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent practical experience.
  • Prior experience with big data systems - Spark, Hive, HUDI, Iceberg, Presto, Flink, Pinot, HDFS, YARN, etc., preferred.
  • Experience building hardened developer tools, SDKs, and abstractions (e. g., streaming data with Flink/Kafka) used by hundreds of engineers.
  • Proficiency in cloud-native infrastructure (GCP) and containerization (Kubernetes) at a massive global scale.

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