Software Engineer - Distributed Database

Huawei Canada has an immediate 12-month contract opening for a Software 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.
• 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 through combination of automated unit tests, functional testing and system testing of the solution.
  

About the ideal candidate:

• Bachelor, Master or PhD in Computer Science or related area.
• Proficient in C and C++ programming.
• Excellent documentation, organization and communication skills.
• Self-motivated; strong desire to learn on the job.
• Must be a team player.
• Experience with design and development of a distributed database, or storage system, or file system, or cache system is an asset.
• Experience in open source community is an asset.