Senior Software Engineer

We’re looking for a driven and innovative Senior Software Engineer, experienced in distributed databases to help shape the future of our open-source database, SpiceDB. In this role, you'll leverage your deep expertise in database engineering to push the boundaries of performance, scalability, and efficiency for both SpiceDB OSS and Enterprise. You’ll focus on low-latency query optimization, refining database architecture, and ensuring the system is robust and reliable for large-scale, mission-critical applications. You will research, design, implement, test and release for new database features and enhancements. Troubleshooting correctness, stability and performance issues related to statement planning and execution within a complex distributed system, driving Optimization efforts by gathering statistics, refining query planning, and implementing materialized views and incremental view maintenance (IVM), indexing, partitioning, and caching strategies to improve query efficiency and overall database performance, contributing to both our open source and enterprise database product, SpiceDB, and closely collaborating with product, engineering, and support teams.