Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Austria, +1 more country.

📋 Description

• Design and manage drivers for CrateDB, encompassing JDBC and Python/SQLAlchemy.

• Establish connections with external tools such as Grafana, Tableau, and Airflow.

• Create and maintain internal administrative utilities, including crash CLI and Admin UI.

• Enhance PostgreSQL compatibility within CrateDB and its ecosystem.

• Develop migration tools for transitioning to and from various database systems and storage formats.

• Author and sustain technical documentation, including reference architectures and integration examples.

• Collaborate with the open source community and technical partners on joint initiatives.

• Assist Product Managers with technical specifications.

• Engage directly with founding engineers on projects managed in public GitHub repositories.

• Make contributions to third-party applications and frameworks such as SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow, and Grafana.

⛳️ Requirements

• Understanding of standards and protocols, including HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, and JDBC.

• Proficient in at least Python and Java.

• Experience with additional programming languages such as Rust, C++, Golang, Swift, or Zig is preferred.

• Familiarity with test-driven development practices.

• Knowledge of versioning, packaging, and deployment in a polyglot software environment.

• Comprehension of how software operates in production settings.

• Proficient in working with relational databases and SQL.

• Strong skills in debugging and problem resolution.

• Self-motivated, hands-on engineering mindset.

• Capability to advance development initiatives in a full-stack capacity while ensuring software quality, documentation, and communication.

• Previous open source contributions are advantageous but not mandatory.

• Familiarity with message bus systems like AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, or ZeroMQ and their respective broker implementations is a plus.

• Knowledge and/or experience in DevOps within containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes is beneficial.

🏝️ Benefits

• A welcoming and supportive work environment.

• An open collaborative culture with colleagues from various backgrounds.

• Remote work options, with direct employment through entities in Germany and Austria or through Remote.com in the employee's home country.

• Competitive salary.

• Flexible working hours.

• Flexible vacation policy.

• Fitness incentives.

• Educational benefits.

• Opportunity to participate in the Employee Stock Options Plan.