Staff Software Engineer - Very Large Databases

About Us:

Lovelace AI was born from the desire to apply state of the art AI and systems engineering to the question of human safety, especially in dangerous conditions such as conflict, disaster response, anti-terrorism and deterrence against AIs designed by adversaries to harm civilians.

How many lives can be saved by taming the information overload, confusion and conflicting priorities experienced by the people responsible for dealing with dangerous situations around the world? We believe the answer is potentially dramatic, and we are determined to create a team with the wisdom, skills, brainpower, thoughtfulness and experience to make this vision real.

Job Summary:
Lovelace AI is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Software Engineer with deep expertise in distributed databases to join our innovative team. In this role, you will be instrumental in designing, developing, and optimizing our distributed database systems to support Lovelace AI's cutting-edge applications and services. You will work on complex data challenges, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high performance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Lead the design, development, and implementation of highly scalable and reliable distributed database systems.
• Architect and optimize database schemas, queries, and indexing strategies for performance and efficiency.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including AI researchers, data scientists, and other engineering teams, to understand data requirements and translate them into robust database solutions.
• Evaluate, select, and integrate various distributed database technologies (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, CockroachDB, DynamoDB, PostgreSQL with sharding).
• Develop and maintain data migration strategies, backup and recovery procedures, and disaster recovery plans.
• Implement monitoring, alerting, and logging solutions for database performance and health.
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex database-related issues in production environments.
• Drive best practices for database design, development, and operations, including automation and infrastructure as code.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest advancements in distributed database technologies and trends.
• Experience in coding at an expert level in at least one of the high performance languages such as Rust, C++, Go or Java.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software engineering with a significant focus on distributed databases.
• Proven expertise in designing, implementing, and managing large-scale distributed database systems.
• Strong practical experience with at least one or more distributed database technologies (e.g., Cassandra, MongoDB, CockroachDB, DynamoDB, distributed PostgreSQL).
• Proficiency in programming languages such as Java, Python, Go, or C++.
• Solid understanding of database internals, concurrency control, distributed transactions, and data consistency models (e.g., eventual consistency, strong consistency).
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their