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Senior Software Engineer - Distributed Database

  • Markham, Ontario
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Job description

Our team has an immediate permanent opening for a Senior Software Engineer.

Responsibilities:

  • 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
  • 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

What you’ll bring to the team:

  • Proficient in C and C++ programming
  • 5-10 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
  • Self-motivated learner; strong desire to learn on the job
  • Must be a team player
  • Bachelor or Master major or PhD in computer science or related area

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