Senior Software Engineer, Database Engine - Storage (Lisbon)

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Lisbon
3-5 Years Experience
Cloud • Software • Database
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The Role
The Senior Software Engineer on the Storage team will design and develop key features of a distributed cloud-native system, ensuring performance, scalability, and data consistency. Responsibilities include leading innovation, mentoring team members, participating in customer POCs, and collaborating across departments.
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Position Overview

As a senior software engineer on the Storage team, you will have the unique benefit of building systems software in a rapid production environment with a small and collaborative team. This includes overseeing the direction, design and development of key features. In this position, you will be empowered to leverage your technical, leadership, and business acumen while mentoring other engineers who are eager to learn from you.

At SingleStore, the Storage Team owns most of the low-level architecture of the system. This architecture is a distributed, shared-nothing and cloud-native system, which is a big part of how our product's scalability works. This includes working with (and building) cluster management, replication, consensus, fault-tolerance, and system of record features and other core distributed system concepts.

If you want to know more about the cool things built by the storage team, you can check out these two articles:

  • The Future is Bottomless
  • Building Fast Distributed Synchronous Replication.

Role and Responsibilities

  • Lead innovation for major software components, systems, and features.
  • Extend the architecture of the system to support enhanced requirements.
  • Ensure data consistency and durability with breakthrough performance and scalability.
  • Automate and test your own code to improve overall software quality.
  • Manage individual project priorities, deadlines and deliverables.
  • Mentor and train other team members on design techniques and coding standards.
  • Actively participate in customer POCs to optimize customer experience and adoption.
  • Work collaboratively with other engineering teams and other departments such as Support, Sales, and Marketing.

Required Skills and Experience

  • 3+ years of experience designing distributed systems and/or fault-tolerant systems, independently of the programming language.
  • 5+ years of experience developing and debugging in system level C/C++, preferably on Linux.
  • 5+ years of experience with low level concepts such as file systems, concurrency, multithreading, and server architectures.
  • Familiarity with modern cloud architectures and paradigms, such as docker containers and kubernetes.
  • Passionate about building highly reliable system software.
  • B.S. degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science or a similar field.

Other:

  • Employment Status: Full Time Employment
  • Work Authorization: EU citizenship required 
  • Location/Working classification: Hybrid - Portugal office 

SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv. 

Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.

To all recruitment agencies: SingleStore does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to SingleStore employees. SingleStore is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.

SingleStore values individuals for their unique skills and experiences, and we’re proud to offer roles in a variety of locations across the United States. Salary is based on permissible, non-discriminatory factors such as skills, experience, and geographic location, and is just one part of our total compensation and benefits package. Certain roles are also eligible for additional rewards, including merit increases and annual bonuses. 

Our benefits package for this role includes: stock options, flexible paid time off, monthly three-day weekends, 14 weeks of fully-paid gender-neutral parental leave, fertility and adoption assistance, mental health counseling, 401(k) retirement plan, and rich health insurance offerings—including medical, dental, vision and life and disability insurance.

Top Skills

C
C++
The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
400 Employees
Hybrid Workplace
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

SingleStore helps businesses adapt more quickly, embrace diverse data and accelerate digital innovation by operationalizing all data through one platform for all of their moments that matter. These capabilities are provided as a service in AWS, Azure, and GCP and through your own deployments with SingleStore Managed Service and SingleStore DB. Visit www.singlestore.com or follow us on Twitter @SingleStoreDB.
Founded in 2011, SingleStore delivers innovative breakthroughs for modern data workloads spanning transactions, analytics and AI for leading businesses undergoing digital transformation. Backed by GV (formerly Google Ventures), Glynn Capital, Accel, Caffeinated Capital, Data Collective and IA Ventures. SingleStore employs over 200 people across its offices in Portland, San Francisco, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Lisbon, London and the Ukraine.
As a converged data platform leader, with hundreds of customers including more than half of the world’s top 10 banks, two of the top three telcos, and 12 of the Fortune 50. In 2019, the company introduced the world to Helios, now called SingleStore Managed Service, its cloud database available in AWS, GCP and Azure. SingleStore is proud to work with leading partners such as IBM/Red Hat, Virtusa, FiServ, InfoSys, and Tata to deliver innovative solutions to customers.

Why Work With Us

SingleStore is designed for the world’s SaaS builders, data leaders and digital disruptors. Brands like Hulu, Uber, Comcast and more choose SingleStore to reduce operational and design burdens of their real-time analytical applications to supercharge limitless data experiences. That means riders quickly connect with their drivers.

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