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).
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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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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