Senior Staff Software Engineer - Spaces

Be Part of Building the Future

Dremio is The Easy and Open Data Lakehouse, providing self-service analytics with data warehouse functionality and data lake flexibility across all of your data. Dremio increases agility with a revolutionary data-as-code approach that adopts Git concepts to enable data experimentation, version control, and governance. In addition, Dremio breaks down data silos by simplifying ingestion into the lakehouse, and also allowing queries directly on databases and data warehouses. All of this is available through a fully managed service that not only eliminates the need to maintain infrastructure and software, but also automatically optimizes the data in the lakehouse to maximize performance for every workload.

Founded in 2015, Dremio is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA. Investors include Cisco Investments, Insight Partners, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Norwest Venture Partners, Redpoint Ventures, and Sapphire Ventures. For more information, visit www.dremio.com. Connect with Dremio on GitHub, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook.

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About the role

The Spaces team is hiring an experienced software engineer to help build world class tools to help customers query their data fast and efficiently. You’ll have the opportunity to architect, design and implement GenAI technologies within the SQL Editor. This also includes Dremio’s Policy Engine for fine grained access control, integration with third party tools and core catalog experiences for Sonar, our query engine. 

What you’ll be doing

• Own the full cycle of development from inception, design, development, testing, and production
• Work on distributed systems for data processing, with efficient protocols and communication, locking and consensus, schedulers, resource management, low latency access to distributed storage, auto scaling, and self healing
• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment
• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain exceptional quality and deepen your understanding of the system architecture and implementation
• Helping grow the team by participating in recruiting, mentoring and developing best practices.

What we’re looking for

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or in a related technical field
• 10+ year of industry experience
• Fluency in Java with 5+ years of experience developing production level software
• Strong foundation in data structures, algorithms, multi-threaded and asynchronous patterns and their applications towards developing scalable systems
• Passion for quality, zero downtime upgrades, availability, resiliency, and uptime of the platform
• Experience developing scalable distributed systems and deploying, scaling, and managing microservices
• Experience with building robust and scalable APIs for data processing platform
• Experience with RBAC (Role based Access Control) in the context of Data Management Platform/Database systems
• Experience with containers and Kubernetes for orchestration and container management in private and public clouds (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
• Excellent understanding of distributed file systems like S3, ADLS or HDFS
• Passion for learning and delivering using latest technologies
• Excellent communication skills and affinity for collaboration and teamwork
• Passion and ability to work in a fast pace