About Firebolt
Firebolt is a cloud data warehouse built for the speed, scale, and flexibility required by modern Data & AI applications. By delivering ultra-low latency, high concurrency, and multi-dimensional elasticity, Firebolt enables teams to build data-intensive AI products that perform at scale. Backed by over $270M in funding and led by a world-class engineering team and experienced leadership, Firebolt is redefining AI data infrastructure and helping companies unlock the full potential of their data.
About the Team
We are the Firebolt Engines team, responsible for production experience of our Engines, the core of Firebolt experience. Engines are how we define the workload a customer runs, and ultimately orchestrates all of the infrastructure to enable customers to execute their queries. This is a high impact team that gets an opportunity to collaborate with all parts of the company from the customer facing experiences to the core database teams and infrastructure.
The role
We are working on next generation Engines infrastructure that will enable us to bring Firebolt engines experience to customers wherever they are at cutting edge speeds, while keeping highest standards of reliability. This role will be responsible for helping to build out, maintain and operate our dynamic compute and routing infrastructure, introducing new ways to bring Firebolt experience to customers.
What You'll Do
- Design, develop and deliver high-quality features that enhance the performance, scalability, and efficiency of our Engines Control plane and routing infrastructure.
- Shape the future of Firebolt’s dynamic workloads and how customers use our product.
- Actively participate in architectural discussions and code reviews, supporting informed decision-making aligned with business and engineering objectives.
- Provide exceptional support for our customers, ensuring their success and satisfaction with our product and services.
Requirements
REQUIREMENTS
- 3+ years of experience building production software
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
- Hands on experience in building production cloud-native applications on AWS, Azure, or GCP
- Development experience in an object-oriented programming language. We develop in Go, C++, and some Python here and there. Experience with these languages is a plus. You are willing to understand and make cross-cutting changes in the Firebolt codebase regardless of the language.
- Experience building and operating highly concurrent, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
- Experience in designing, developing, testing, and deploying secure services and applications, leveraging continuous integration and continuous delivery tools
Preferred qualifications
- Experience working with Kubernetes
- Experience working with Terraform and/or Helm
- Prior experience with C++
- Experience with database internals
- Experience with systems programming, OS internals, and low-latency applications
Top Skills
What We Do
Firebolt is the cloud data warehouse for builders of next-gen analytics experiences. Combining the benefits and ease-of-use of a modern architecture with sub-second performance at terabyte scale, Firebolt helps data engineering and dev teams deliver data applications that end-users love.
