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Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Database)

United States, New York 164050.00 - 250000.00 USD / Year · Job Posted December 10, 2025
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Our database technology sits at the heart of the Materialize product—a product that transforms years of cutting-edge academic research into the missing element of today’s data architecture. As a member of our Database team, you will join a team of ~10 incredible engineers focused on solving ambitious systems problems in service of delivering this remarkable product to our users.

Job Responsibility

  • Design and deliver improvements to the Database, with an eye on correctness, reliability, and performance
  • Own projects end-to-end, from early stage design to holding the pager
  • Debug and resolve complex distributed systems issues, sometimes directly with customers
  • Continually improve system reliability, observability, and automation
  • Collaborate across your team, with Product, with Field Eng, and all other stakeholders to align on direction, carefully prioritize, and build the best product for our users
  • Share your work through mentorship, demos, blog posts, and any other relevant channels

Requirements

  • Several years of experience developing software
  • Passionate about distributed systems and/or databases
  • Excited to learn Rust if not already using it
  • Pride in owning work end-to-end
  • Ability to write clear design docs and well-documented code
  • Love solving hard problems in service of the customer
  • Excited about working at the intersection of frontier academic research and a venture-backed startup

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