Senior Staff Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States, +7 more countries.

📋 Description

• Act as the technical leader at the company level for InfluxDB 3.0, directly reporting to the Chief Product Officer.

• Define the long-term technical vision for the InfluxDB 3.0 product line and its role within the broader product portfolio.

• Collaborate with engineering leaders on product strategy, roadmap initiatives, and decisions regarding build versus buy.

• Recognize critical technical challenges and assess which ones should not be addressed.

• Design and develop production-grade Rust code for the storage engine, covering ingestion, compaction, columnar storage on object stores, caching, and query execution with DataFusion.

• Oversee distributed caching, reliability, and performance efforts from benchmarking to production deployment.

• Engage in discussions about cloud deployment across AWS and Azure.

• Establish engineering standards and best practices that are adopted across various teams and divisions.

• Participate in the on-call rotation and enhance operational excellence.

• Provide mentorship to staff and senior engineers, fostering the development of future technical leaders.

• Convey InfluxData's engineering perspective to executives and customers.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 15 years of progressive software engineering experience, including several years at a senior staff level or higher.

• An advanced degree in computer science or a related discipline is advantageous; equivalent experience is also considered.

• Proven experience in building and managing distributed systems on a large scale.

• Practical experience with multiple cloud vendors (AWS, GCP, Azure) and object storage solutions.

• Extensive hands-on experience with Rust, or strong systems experience coupled with a willingness to master Rust.

• Expertise in distributed caching, reliability, and performance engineering.

• Demonstrated ability to establish technical direction across various teams or divisions and influence executive decision-making.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills for interacting with engineers, executives, and customers.

• Experience with time series or observability workloads that handle high ingest rates is a plus.

• Familiarity with managing a database as a cloud service is advantageous.

• Published talks, papers, or writings on databases or distributed systems is a plus.

• Eligibility to work in the US or authorization to work in the current location.

• Interviews are conducted via Zoom; candidates who cannot access Zoom should inform the company.

🏝️ Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision insurance with 100% coverage for employees.

• Company contributions to your Flexible Spending Account (FSA).

• Flexible Time Off policy - take the time you need.

• Life Insurance and short- and long-term disability coverage.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Wellness programs.

• Annual budget for professional development.

• Financial planning and legal advisory services.

• Equity opportunities.

• Option for remote work arrangements.