Senior Software Engineer, Community Source Engineering

We are looking for a senior software engineer to join our new Community Open Source Engineering team focused on growing the Quickwit OSS community and helping steer the quickwit-oss collection of projects. You will play a key role in evolving quickwit and tantivy, ensuring community happiness, optimizing the release process and operations, among other responsibilities. This is a hybrid role, primarily focused on software engineering, with a crucial component dedicated to technical writing, including producing blog posts and technical guides.

Community Open Source Engineering is responsible for fostering engagement and guiding development of the company’s open source projects outside of the core product and security research areas. The team ensures these projects deliver value to both the open source community and the company by prioritizing community engagement, maintaining software quality and security, and strategically developing new features. As a member of a small team, you’ll play a crucial role in shaping the future of Community Open Source Engineering and have a significant impact on the team’s direction.

• Assist with managing the Quickwit community by:
  • reviewing external contributions and ensuring codebase quality
  • triaging reported Git Hub issues
  • answering questions on Git Hub Discussions
• Help define the project governance. Establish contribution guidelines and continuously improve processes to minimize friction for all stakeholders.
• Collect data to assess project health and usage, identifying areas for improvement.
• Actively evangelize Quickwit to expand its reach and impact.
• Design and implement highly requested features to advance the Quickwit and tantivy roadmaps.
• Propose and implement architectural changes that facilitate contributions and reduce maintenance burdens.

• You are passionate in engaging with a community of open source users and contributors
• You ship fast, overcome blockers with a practical mindset, and cut through ambiguity
• You have at least 3 years of systems‑level programming experience (Rust, C++, Go, or a similar language)
• You are a proficient written communicator, with the ability to clearly articulate thoughts across a team
• You are passionate about developer experience and reducing friction for maintainers and contributors
• You have experience with Git Hub Actions and/or release management for complex software projects
• You've worked on extract‑transform‑load tools or stream processing systems

• New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan (ESPP)
• Continuous professional development, product training, and career pathing
• Interdepartmental mentor and buddy program for in‑house networking
• An inclusive company culture, ability to join our Community Guilds (the company employee resource groups)
• Competitive global benefits
• Giving programs

The company offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate’s skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, the company offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.

The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at the company is: $215,000 — $265,000 USD.

About the company:

The company is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity  brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high‑growth AI leaders, the company enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence.

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