Fortune 500 organizations and the most innovative mid-size and startup companies choose TigerGraph to accelerate their analytics, AI, and machine learning:
- Seven out of the top ten global banks use TigerGraph for real-time fraud detection.
- Over 50 million patients receive care path recommendations to assist them on their wellness journey.
- 300 million consumers receive personalized offers with recommendation engines powered by TigerGraph.
- TigerGraph reduces power outages by optimizing the energy infrastructure for 1 billion people.
This position is primarily remote, but location-based requirements may apply. If the selected candidate is located near one of our company offices, the candidate will have a hybrid work arrangement (2-3 days in-office).
Job Responsibilities
- Lead the architecture, design, and evolution of highly available, scalable, and fault-tolerant distributed systems for graph data.
- Drive the optimization of data ingestion, indexing, and query pipelines, leading performance analysis and scalability improvements for low-latency, high-throughput workloads.
- Lead the diagnosis and resolution of complex production issues, driving root cause analysis, operational improvements, and preventive engineering practices.
- Provide technical leadership through design reviews, code reviews, mentoring, and driving engineering best practices across the team.
- Other responsibilities as required.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 8 years of relevant experience
Skills and Knowledge
Deep, hands-on experience with one or more vector databases or similarity search libraries.
- Proven experience designing and working with any graph database and query languages like Cypher
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, replication, sharding, and fault tolerance.
- Solid programming fundamentals; experienced with C++, Go, or any other major programming language.
- Understanding of distributed systems principles and the ability to evaluate trade-offs in system design.
- Familiar with Kafka, ETCD or similar technologies;
- Proactive and collaborative team player with strong communication skills.
- Open to adopting AI-assisted engineering practices ("vibe coding") to improve productivity and code quality.
Bonus Points
- Familiar with container tools such as Docker.
- Hands-on experience with gRPC or REST APIs.
- Passionate about systems performance profiling, tuning, or debugging.
Skills Required
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or a related field
- 5 years of relevant experience
- Deep, hands-on experience with one or more vector databases or similarity search libraries
- Proven experience designing and working with graph databases and query languages like Cypher
- Solid understanding of distributed systems concepts: consensus, replication, sharding, and fault tolerance
- Solid programming fundamentals; experience with C++, Go, or another major programming language
- Familiarity with Kafka, ETCD or similar technologies
- Proactive and collaborative team player with strong communication skills
- Open to adopting AI-assisted engineering practices
- Familiarity with container tools such as Docker
- Hands-on experience with gRPC or REST APIs
- Passion for systems performance profiling, tuning, or debugging
What We Do
TigerGraph is a platform for advanced analytics and machine learning on connected data. Based on the industry’s first and only distributed native graph database, TigerGraph’s proven technology supports advanced analytics and machine learning applications such as fraud detection, anti-money laundering (AML), entity resolution, customer 360, recommendations, knowledge graph, cybersecurity, supply chain, IoT, and network analysis. The company is headquartered in Redwood City, California, USA. Start free with tigergraph.com/cloud.
