Senior Software Engineer, Data Ingestion

• Work as part of small, collaborative teams to help drive the company forward by building systems software in a rapid production environment.
• Responsible for both new and existing projects, ensuring they are deployed into production with each release.
• Focus on performance optimization, building out data ingestion systems from distributed sources such as Apache Kafka.
• Improve SingleStore's performance and efficiency, including writing and testing new code for the query optimizer.
• Gain significant exposure to product, marketing, and sales teams, contributing both technical and business insights to the team.

Required Skills and Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in software engineering.
• B.S. Degree in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering, or a related discipline.
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Strong system programming skills with proficiency in C/C++ on Linux.
• Experience with data ingestion from distributed sources like Apache Kafka.
• Familiarity with working with data file formats such as Avro, Parquet, JSON, CSV, and others.
• Strong understanding of Linux system programming concepts.
• Knowledge of multithreading, memory management, and performance optimization in large-scale systems.
• Additional experience with Java, Python, and SQL is a plus.
• Passionate about building highly reliable software.
• Firm grasp of algorithms and data structures.
• Experience with building databases and knowledge of DB internals is a plus.