Core Database Engineer

Salary Competitive

Time-series data is everywhere, and Timescale is helping to make sense of it. Our powerful time-series database is a key building block across a range of industries: IoT, DevOps, monitoring, eventing, finance, industrial, logistics, transportation, and via the edge, on premise, and cloud deployments. It powers users’ core products.


We need extraordinary engineers to join our team. You will act as both architect and programmer, designing, coding, and testing the core of our open-source time-series database. Our focus is on building a scalable, reliable, robust, usable, secure, performant database. You should have strong systems building experience and expertise in C, understand both query optimization and database systems, and ideally already be a PostgreSQL expert. And the future of managing and making sense of the deluge of time-series data should excite you.


This is a full time position at our office in New York City or Stockholm.

Responsibilities:

  • Play a core role in helping to design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more.
  • Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap.
  • Continually improve, optimize, and test existing functionality of TimescaleDB.
  • Work with engineers both at Timescale and the open-source community to coordinate new functionality and deliver powerful integrations of the database into large applications and pipelines.
  • Provide elevated technical assistance to high-value customers, gaining insight into the needs and experiences of our users.
  • Be an enthusiastic and personable teammate, receiving and providing code reviews, and otherwise partnering and helping other engineers.

Requirements:

  • Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent experience; advanced degrees also welcome (most of our core engineering team have PhDs in computer systems).
  • 5+ years engineering experience.
  • Expertise building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code-bases.
  • Experience in PostgreSQL internal development highly desirable (but not required).
  • Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems.
  • Passionate about building highly-reliable system software.
  • Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc.


Visit our careers page for more information: http://www.timescale.com/careers.html

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Timescale

TimescaleDB is the first time-series database specifically designed for scale, ease of use, complex queries. Packaged as an extension. Engineered up from PostgreSQL.Our team includes top researchers and industry veterans with experience building scalable systems at a variety of large and small companies.The company is based in NYC, Stockholm, and LA, and is backed by top tier investors with a track record of success in the industry.

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