Title: Senior Software Research Engineer - Database Engines

Primary Skill: C, C++ or Rust

Secondary Skill: data warehousing, SQL optimization and parallel/distributed database systems

Seniority: Senior

Years: 5+

Emp Type: FTE

Location: Vancouver

Client position: 469

Description:

Our team has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Software Research Engineer.

Responsibilities:

• Work with a small team of highly motivated engineers and researchers.
• Participate the design and implementation of analytical database engines.
• Validate, evaluate and troubleshoot system designs issues.
• Be up-to-date and evaluate relevant research ideas from leading research venues (e.g., VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR).
• Deliver high-performance and reliable code.

Job requirements
What you'll bring to the team:

• Hands on experience with query engine internals, transactional storage engines and indexing techniques.
• Domain expert in data warehousing, SQL optimization and parallel/distributed database systems.
• Excellent programming skills in C, C++ or Rust is a must. Familiarity with other languages is an asset.
• Proficient in systems programming, debugging and profiling.
• Hands-on expert on memory-centric computing techniques (e.g., vectorization, query compilation, cache-aware optimizations and in-memory indexes).
• Familiar with modern open data formats for analytics (e.g., Apache Arrow and Parquet).
• Experience with data integration from various sources in data lakes.
• Deep understanding of modern hardware, including multi-socket multi-cores, fast SSDs and low-latency networking technologies.

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