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++ (33), Rust (25), Go (6), C (1), Zig (1).
Hiring most into this area. Grafana Labs (13), OpenAI (5), Cloudflare (4), CoreWeave (4), Elastic (4).
Software Engineer, Distributed Data Systems - Robotics
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Software Engineer, ML Systems & Training Architecture
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Member of Technical Staff (AI Infrastructure Engineer)
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Software Engineer - PlanetScale Postgres
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Software Engineer - PlanetScale Vitess
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Software Engineer - Sharded Postgres (Neki)
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Member of Engineering (Compute)
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Software Engineer, Ingest
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Senior Software Engineer | Database Engine
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Software Engineer - Database Engineering
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database engineer
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Staff Engineer SQL Engine
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91 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.
Senior Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage
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Staff Software Engineer, Cloud Data Storage
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Staff Software Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
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Site Reliability Engineer, Inference Infrastructure
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Lead Member of Technical Staff, Inference Infrastructure
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