Scope. Query planners and optimizers, vectorized execution, transaction and index internals, write-ahead logging, and distributed consensus.
Not here. Application backends that use a database are out of scope entirely, and the durability layer underneath an engine is filed under storage.
Languages named on these postings. C++ (32), Rust (24), Go (6), Zig (1).
Hiring most into this area. Grafana Labs (13), OpenAI (5), Cloudflare (4), CoreWeave (4), Elastic (4).
Software Engineer, Distributed Systems
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Software Engineer, LLM Infrastructure
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Staff Backend Engineer (Go), Events Platform
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query | UK | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query | Germany | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query | Spain | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases - Loki Query | Sweden | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Germany | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Ireland | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Spain | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | Sweden | Remote
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Senior Backend Engineer - Databases Pyroscope | UK | Remote
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Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | Canada | Remote
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Staff Backend Engineer - Databases Tempo | US | Remote
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Staff Software Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | Canada | Remote
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Staff Software Engineer - Adaptive Telemetry, Databases | USA | Remote
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Distributed Systems Engineer - Platform
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Software Engineer - Fleet Orchestration
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Software Engineer - Database
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Software Engineer - Database
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Software Engineer, Frontier Systems - Power Management
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Software Engineer, Model Inference
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Software Engineer, Database Systems
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Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics
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Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture
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86 more roles touch databases & query engines without being filed under it
Every role is filed under one sub-domain — the one its own title says it is. These reference databases & query engines as secondary work.
Performance Engineer - Performance Analysis & Tuning
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Performance Engineer - Benchmarking
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Software Engineer, Model Routing & Inference
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Software Engineer, Storage
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Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
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