Senior Software Engineer

Job Duties

Write high performance modern C++ code that increases the functionality, efficiency, performance, scalability, and throughput of the database. Collaborate with others to discover novel and innovative solutions for delivering cutting-edge performance at scale.

• Minimum 5 years experience.
• Four (4) years experience developing software in a multi-threaded system-level product, such as a parallel / distributed database server. Candidates must be proficient with atomic instructions and the basic synchronization primitives : mutexes, semaphores, and condition variables.
• Four (4) years of experience developing software using C++.
• Strong grasp of OS internals, particularly memory management.
• Proficient at developing software on Linux.
• Experience working independently, proactively defining project goals and milestones.
• Excellent communication skills; this includes writing functional and design specs as well as defending and communicating ideas and proposals to others.
• Strong desire to learn new & emerging technologies.

• SQL, SPARQL, Cypher or other graph database languages
• Compiler design and C++ code generation
• Graph Databases, Graph Algorithms, Machine Learning
• Interprocess communication and the TCP / IP networking stack
• Efficient access of data stored on disks, SSDs, cloud storage, and HDFS
• Database Internals