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Principal Engineer - Distributed Database

    • Markham, Ontario
  • wa3oy

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Principal Engineer.


About the team:

The Distributed Data Storage and Management Lab leads research in distributed data systems, aiming to develop next-generation cloud serverless products that encompass core infrastructure and databases. This lab addresses various data challenges, including cloud-native disaggregated databases, pay-by-query user models, and optimizing low-level data transfers via RDMA. Teams within this lab create advanced cloud serverless data infrastructure and implement cutting-edge networking technologies for Huawei's global AI infrastructure.


About the job: 

  • Research and development of distributed, highly available transaction processing database management system focusing on algorithms for scale up and scale out.
  • Work with a team of architects and engineers to develop proof-of-concept systems and components across the data manager, buffer manager and transaction processing components.
  • Investigate and design new data structures and algorithms focusing on lockless and NUMA aware approaches on the latest and state of the art hardware technology.
  • Continuous enhancements on the distributed database system to fulfill customer requirements for self-tuning under differing workload conditions.
  • Mentor junior colleagues on algorithm design, data structure and software engineering aspects focusing on high performance scalable code.
  • Work with QA and continuous integration teams to drive a quality overall solution though a combination of automated unit tests, functional testing and system testing of the solution.

Job requirements

About the ideal candidate:

  • Proficient in C and C++ programming.
  • 10+ years’ experience with design and development of a distributed database, or storage system, or file system, or cache system.
  • Experience in open source community is an asset.
  • Excellent documentation, organization and communication skills.
  • Publication history and patent success is an asset.
  • Bachelor's in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications; Master's or PhD is an asset.

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