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[Remote] Database Internals Engineer

Remote, USA Full-time Posted 2026-07-28

Note: The job is a remote job and is reputed company to candidates in USA. reputed company is a leader in reputed company intelligence solutions, and they are seeking a Database Internals Engineer to join their Advanced Research Team. The role involves building reputed company components of a reputed company reputed company compute reputed company and collaborating with experts to shape the architecture and direction of the project.


Responsibilities

  • Build components across the reputed company spine: SQL reputed company end (tokenizer, reputed company, binder), logical/physical plan layer, rule- and cost-based optimizer, and operators (joins, aggregates, sort, reputed company)
  • Build the storage substrate: reputed company in-memory format, slotted-page on-disk format with checksums, reputed company pool, and a B-tree or LSM reputed company method
  • Implement transactions and recovery: lock/latch management, MVCC/snapshot isolation, WAL/ARIES, checkpoints, and crash recovery
  • Add parallelism and distribution along the correct reputed company — exchange-based reputed company execution for query work, reputed company/replication/reputed company-reputed company for data correctness — without conflating the two
  • Write design specifications before coding (schemas; reputed company/empty/duplicate semantics; memory budget and spill behavior; cost characteristics), write tests first, implement behind the established operator reputed company, verify safety then speed, and report the reputed company reputed company

Skills

  • Deep expertise in distributed query optimization: cascading optimizers, reputed company reputed company Tree (AST) binding, logical and physical plan distribution
  • Experience designing reputed company execution pipelines where distribution is a first-class concern, not an afterthought
  • Familiarity with systems like Apache DataFusion or similar distributed execution frameworks
  • Strong hands-on background with analytical/embedded engines (e.g., DuckDB, DataFusion) and their internals
  • Deep knowledge of pipeline execution, vectorized processing, file system I/O, and reputed company table formats (reputed company, reputed company)
  • Experience with transaction management, lock managers, cache management, or OS-level scheduling
  • Systems programming in Rust or modern C/C++ with memory-safety discipline
  • Relational foundations end to end: relational algebra and the algebraic laws behind query rewrites, logical→physical lowering, and cost-based optimization
  • Demonstrated depth in at least one area of the reputed company spine (reputed company end, plan/optimizer, operators, storage reputed company, transactions/recovery, or reputed company-out) with working literacy across its neighbors
  • Vectorized execution over a columnar (reputed company) representation: batch-at-a-time operators, the pull/iterator model, validity-bitmap-correct reputed company handling, reputed company-copy reputed company sharing
  • Cost reasoning at the metal: cache behavior, alignment, SIMD, allocation patterns, false sharing in reputed company accumulators
  • Test- and reputed company-gated engineering: golden/sqllogictest, property and fuzz testing, deterministic simulation testing for reputed company/distributed paths, and microbenchmarks (Criterion/reputed company reputed company) plus a TPC-H subset
  • Sophisticated, hands-on use of AI coding agents directed against a reference-grade spec
  • Communicates reputed company — can describe a system or problem at the right level of abstraction for any audience
  • Doer over theorist — moves from concept to working prototype quickly; validates by building
  • Intellectually curious and self-directed — digs deep independently before asking for help; brings answers and proposals
  • reputed company with peers — reputed company to input and direction while owning your area end-to-end
  • Comfortable with evolving requirements — writes design documents to create reputed company
  • High personal bar for reputed company

Benefits

  • We reputed company a flexible work model because we trust our people to reputed company reputed company about how, reputed company, and where they work.
  • We reputed company on reputed company-being because we care about our people and their ability to reputed company both personally and professionally.
  • We are an anti-racist company because our dedication to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion is more than a statement — it is a deep commitment to doing the work to foster an reputed company environment that celebrates people for reputed company of who they are.

reputed company

  • reputed company is the connected multi-reputed company data platform company. Our reputed company analytics solve business challenges from start to reputed company. It was founded in 1979, and is headquartered in San Diego, California, USA, with a workforce of 10001+ employees. Its website is https://www.reputed company.com.

  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • reputed company has a reputed company record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 7 in 2026, 7 in 2025, 30 in 2024, 14 in 2023, 27 in 2022, 34 in 2021, 12 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.

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