Senior Software Engineer - Database Engine Internals

What this role involves

This Senior Software Engineer role at Databricks focuses on designing and implementing next-generation query engine and storage systems for the Lakehouse architecture. The work involves areas like query compilation, distributed execution, vectorized execution, storage structures, and resource management. Candidates should have a passion for database systems and distributed systems, with preferred 5+ years of experience.

Skills this posting asks for

• query compilation
• query optimization
• distributed query execution
• vectorized execution engine
• data security
• resource management
• transaction coordination
• storage structures
• encodings
• indexes
• apache spark
• performance optimization
• database systems
• distributed systems

Requirements

• Level: senior

From the employer’s posting

Our mission at Databricks is to radically simplify the whole data lifecycle from ingestion to ETL, BI, and all the way up to ML/AI with a unified platform. To achieve this goal, we believe the data warehouse architecture as we know it today will be replaced by a new architectural pattern, Lakeho…