Systems PhD - Software Engineer

What this role involves

Databricks is seeking a Systems PhD Software Engineer to join its Database Engine team. The role involves designing and implementing improvements in query compilation, distributed execution, and storage systems. Candidates should have a PhD in databases or systems and a passion for performance optimization.

Skills this posting asks for

• query compilation
• distributed query execution
• vectorized engine
• data security
• resource management
• transaction coordination
• storage structures
• encoding
• indexes
• automatic physical data optimization
• database systems
• distributed systems
• performance optimization

From the employer’s posting

P-1299 Databricks is radically simplifying the entire data lifecycle, from ingestion to generative AI and everything in-between. We’re doing it cross-cloud with a unified platform, currently serving over 10k customers, processing exabytes of data/day on 15+ million VMs, and growing&nbsp;<…