Core Database Engineer

About QuestDB

QuestDB is the fastest growing time-series database in the world.

As a specialized database, QuestDB stores, processes and analyzes time series data in real-time, with a focus on reliability, extreme performance and simplicity. It provides best-in-class hardware efficiency and robust features, saving costs and accelerating time-to-value.

Teams have had success with QuestDB across a wide range of industries, such as Financial Services, Energy, Manufacturing, Web3 and Space Exploration. Fortune 500 companies such as Airbus and Yahoo deploy QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems, serving close to a billion users. Emerging and disruptive startups also leverage QuestDB to gain a significant edge within traditional industries.

Our open source repository has gathered 14k+ stars in three years, and is the fastest growing in our category according to DB-Engines. We are a product-first company with a large community of developers. As a team, we are globally distributed, remote-first and backed by leading venture capital firms and Y Combinator.

The role

As a Core Database Engineer, you will bring your experience in design, development, and testing to improve our open source time-series SQL database. You will continuously improve the system's performance, 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 and collaborative environment to improve user experience and the system's consistency along the way.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building data-centric software, writing and performance tuning data processing algorithms
• A BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Core Java, C or C++
• Good understanding of data structures, algorithms, OS inner-workings and hardware
• Can-do attitude, good communication skills, empathy
• Solid experience working as part of a team, experience of git workflow, CI and review process
• Cloud experience is a plus

What we offer

• Generous equity options package
• Flexible working hours
• 100% remote
• Freedom of choice for your technical equipment
• Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues
• Truly international: more than 10 different nationalities
• A transparent, collaborative & inclusive culture
• Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow
• Little to zero controls combined with autonomous work where you set your own pace in a collaborative environment

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