Senior / Staff Software Engineer (Database)

• 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

• 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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