Senior Software Engineer, Database Acceleration

Senior Software Engineer, Database Acceleration

Location:

Seattle

Team:

Employment Type:

Regular

Job Code: QU22

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As a senior software engineer in the data platform team, you will have the opportunity to build, optimize and grow one of the largest data platforms in the world. You'll have the opportunity to gain hands‑on experience on all kinds of systems in the data platform ecosystem. Your work will have a direct and huge impact on the company's core products as well as hundreds of millions of users.

• Design and implement reliable, scalable, robust and extensible big data systems that support core products and business
• Build the world‑leading cloud native OLAP engine for PB‑level data sets
• Optimize and enhance open source data frameworks, Spark SQL, Presto, Flink etc.
• Responsible for architecting internal data warehouse and data lakes to support all business units
• Creating innovative solutions toward system scalability, reliability, and availability problems

Minimum qualifications:

• BS or MS degree in Computer Science or related technical field or equivalent practical experience
• Familiar with commonly used algorithms, data structures, network programming and multi‑threaded programming
• Experience with the Big Data technologies (Hadoop, Spark, Presto, Kafka, Click House, Flink, Flume etc.)
• Experience with building and optimizing Big Data pipelines and architectures

The base salary range for this position in the selected city is $198,360 - $416,100 annually.

Compensation may vary outside of this range depending on a number of factors, including a candidate’s qualifications, skills, competencies and experience, and location. Base pay is one part of the Total Package that is provided to compensate and recognize employees for their work, and this role may be eligible for additional discretionary bonuses/incentives, and restricted stock units.

Benefits may vary depending on the nature of employment and the country work location. Employees have day one access to medical, dental, and vision insurance, a 401(k) savings plan with company match, paid parental leave, short‑term and long‑term disability coverage, life insurance, wellbeing benefits, among others. Employees also receive 10 paid holidays per year, 10 paid sick days per year and 17 days of Paid Personal Time (prorated upon hire with increasing accruals by tenure).

The Company reserves the right to modify or change these benefits programs at any time, with or without notice.

Qualified applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for employment in accordance with all federal, state, and local laws including the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. Our company believes that criminal history may have a direct, adverse and negative relationship on the following job duties, potentially resulting in the withdrawal of the conditional offer of employment:

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