Overview

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Base pay range: $100,000.00/yr - $180,000.00/yr.

About QuestDB

As a specialized database, QuestDB stores, processes and analyzes time-series data in real-time, with a focus on reliability, extreme performance and simplicity. It provides best-in-class hardware efficiency and robust features, saving costs and accelerating time-to-value. QuestDB has an active open source community and operates as a product-first company with a globally distributed, remote-first team backed by leading venture capital firms and Y Combinator.

QuestDB’s customers span industries such as Financial Services, Energy and Space Exploration. Category-leading companies rely on QuestDB for large-scale, data-intensive production systems.

The role

As a Core Database Engineer, you will contribute to the design, development, and testing of our open source time-series SQL database. You will work to continuously improve performance, ensuring that QuestDB remains scalable and easy to use as new features are rolled out, with a focus on C++ and Java (zero-GC). You will interact with QuestDB’s growing user and contributor community and collaborate in an open environment to improve user experience and system consistency.

Requirements

• 3+ years of experience building data-centric software, including writing and tuning data-processing algorithms
• BS in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• Proficiency in C++ and Rust
• Intermediate knowledge of Java
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, OS internals, and hardware
• Can-do attitude, good communication skills, empathy
• Experience working in teams, with Git workflows, CI, and code reviews
• Cloud experience is a plus

What We Offer

• Generous equity options package
• Flexible working hours
• 100% remote work
• Freedom to choose your technical equipment
• Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues
• Truly international team (10+ nationalities)
• Transparent, collaborative, and inclusive culture
• Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow
• High autonomy, minimal controls, and a collaborative environment

Working at QuestDB

We hire talented and passionate people who share our mission to empower developers to solve their problems with data. We are building breakthrough technology to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.

• Work with world-class engineers
• We are a company with thousands of users; our mission is to empower them
• Culture of ownership, autonomy and independent thinking
• Transparent leadership and value employees' strategic input
• Ambitious team tackling difficult problems at the deepest data infrastructure layer

Job details

• Seniority level: Mid-Senior level
• Employment type: Full-time
• Job function: Information Technology
• Industries: Technology, Information and Internet

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