Software Engineer, Query Processing

Firebolt is the Analytical Database purpose-built for the speed, scale, and flexibility of data & AI applications. Our platform delivers ultra-low latency, high concurrency, and multi-dimensional elasticity-empowering data and AI teams to build data-intensive products that perform ked by over $270M in VC funding, a world-class GTM and Engineering team, and an ambitious vision, Firebolt is leading the transformation of AI data infrastructure.

Firebolt is building a team of talented developers to work on our distributed query processing engine.

As part of our growing team here in Munich, you can have a major impact on Firebolt’s product. We are focused on improving the performance of and extending our vectorized query engine which sits at the heart of our product.

Our projects range from building indexes on top of cloud storage, expanding support for semi-structured data, supporting Python UDFs, integration with AI inference engines, improving distributed query processing, all the way to collecting detailed statistics for our cost-based query optimizer. If these challenges sound exciting, we would love to hear from you!

• Design, build, and maintain our cutting-edge query processing and optimization engine.
• Help shape how Firebolt supports open table formats like Iceberg, ensuring correctness, performance, and future extensibility.
• Participate in design discussions, code reviews, and performance investigations across the query processing team.
• Partner with engineers across Firebolt to deliver well-integrated, high-performance query execution features.

• Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field or equivalent experience.
• Experience working with C++ on production software.
• Fluency in modern C++ (C++11 and above, our codebase uses C++20).
• Experience building multi-threaded, high-performance systems.
• Experience with database internals and query processing.

• Experience writing high-performance code for network access, SSD access, or CPU-heavy computation
• Experience building large-scale systems.
• Experience with distributed systems or distributed query processing.

The pay range listed below reflects the base salary for this role. In addition to base pay, this position is eligible to participate in our commission plan and stock option program, forming part of the total on-target earnings (OTE).As part of our compensation philosophy, total compensation is tailored to each candidate and influenced by factors such as job-related skills, level of experience, relevant certifications, and geographic location.

Commission Plan:
Eligible to participate in the company’s commission plan; base salary typically represents approximately 90% of the total on-target earnings (OTE)

Equity:
Incentive Stock Options (ISOs), subject to a four-year vesting schedule with a one-year cliff

The actual compensation package will be determined based on the candidate’s qualifications, experience, and geographic location and may vary within the stated range.

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