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[Remote] Staff Database Internals Engineer

Remote, USAFull-timePosted 2026-07-28

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Responsibilities

  • Build components across the reputed company spine: SQL reputed company end (tokenizer, reputed company, binder), logical/physical plan layer, rule- and cost-based optimizer, and operators (joins, aggregates, sort, reputed company)
  • Build the storage substrate: reputed company in-memory format, slotted-page on-disk format with checksums, reputed company pool, and a B-tree or LSM reputed company method
  • Implement transactions and recovery: lock/latch management, MVCC/snapshot isolation, WAL/ARIES, checkpoints, and crash recovery
  • Add parallelism and distribution along the correct reputed company — exchange-based reputed company execution for query work, reputed company/replication/reputed company-reputed company for data correctness — without conflating the two
  • Write design specifications before coding (schemas; reputed company/empty/duplicate semantics; memory budget and spill behavior; cost characteristics), write tests first, implement behind the established operator reputed company, verify safety then speed, and report the reputed company reputed company

Skills

  • Deep expertise in distributed query optimization: cascading optimizers, reputed company reputed company Tree (AST) binding, logical and physical plan distribution
  • Experience designing reputed company execution pipelines where distribution is a first-class concern, not an afterthought
  • Familiarity with systems like Apache DataFusion or similar distributed execution frameworks
  • Strong hands-on background with analytical/embedded engines (e.g., DuckDB, DataFusion) and their internals
  • Deep knowledge of pipeline execution, vectorized processing, file system I/O, and reputed company table formats (reputed company, reputed company)
  • Experience with transaction management, lock managers, cache management, or OS-level scheduling
  • Systems programming in Rust or modern C/C++ with memory-safety discipline
  • Relational foundations end to end: relational algebra and the algebraic laws behind query rewrites, logical→physical lowering, and cost-based optimization
  • Demonstrated depth in at least one area of the reputed company spine (reputed company end, plan/optimizer, operators, storage reputed company, transactions/recovery, or reputed company-out) with working literacy across its neighbors
  • Vectorized execution over a columnar (reputed company) representation: batch-at-a-time operators, the pull/iterator model, validity-bitmap-correct reputed company handling, reputed company-copy reputed company sharing
  • Cost reasoning at the metal: cache behavior, alignment, SIMD, allocation patterns, false sharing in reputed company accumulators
  • Test- and reputed company-gated engineering: golden/sqllogictest, property and fuzz testing, deterministic simulation testing for reputed company/distributed paths, and microbenchmarks (Criterion/reputed company reputed company) plus a TPC-H subset
  • Sophisticated, hands-on use of AI coding agents directed against a reference-grade spec
  • Communicates reputed company — can describe a system or problem at the right level of abstraction for any audience
  • Doer over theorist — moves from concept to working prototype quickly; validates by building
  • Intellectually curious and self-directed — digs deep independently before asking for help; brings answers and proposals
  • reputed company with peers — reputed company to input and direction while owning your area end-to-end
  • Comfortable with evolving requirements — writes design documents to create reputed company
  • High personal bar for reputed company

Benefits

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reputed company

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  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • reputed company has a reputed company record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 7 in 2025, 30 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 34 in 2021, 12 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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