Staff Software Engineer – Fusion Adapters

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in India.

📋 Description

• Create, develop, and sustain Rust-first connectivity layers, execution APIs, and adapter frameworks.

• Collaborate with dbt compiler, semantic layer, and runtime teams to advance adapter interfaces and system boundaries.

• Contribute to Arrow/ADBC and other open-source specifications or implementations.

• Take ownership of CI, testing frameworks, profiling, error reporting surfaces, and release readiness for Fusion adapters.

• Troubleshoot interoperability and performance challenges across drivers, engines, and compute domains.

• Work together with internal and community maintainers to review PRs, compose RFCs, and enhance public code architectures.

• Guide engineers on systems best practices and shared patterns for resilience, debuggability, and API clarity.

⛳️ Requirements

• Strong programming background in Rust, Go, C++, or similar performance-oriented languages.

• Experience in designing or maintaining SDKs, libraries, connectors, or compute/data integration codebases.

• Familiarity with data warehouses, query engines, Arrow/columnar ecosystems, or execution runtimes.

• A passion for developing foundational platform components relied upon by other teams and community members.

• Comfort with public code review processes, async-first communication, and collaborative RFC practices.

• A mindset focused on debuggability, reliability, and ownership in ambiguous problem spaces.

• 6+ years of experience in software engineering, showcasing strong systems-level skills.

• 2+ years of experience in open-source, SDK, runtime, or low-level integration environments.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent experience through industry OSS contributions.

• Preferred qualifications include experience with Arrow, ADBC, DuckDB, Presto, DataFusion, Spark, ClickHouse, or similar engines; knowledge of adapter/plugin standards; familiarity with Rust async ecosystems or Go concurrency; previous OSS governance experience; and experience in developer-experience or adapter-author scaffolding.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-paid medical insurance.

• Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country.

• Paid sick time.

• Inclusive parental leave.

• Paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest.

• Volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants.

• Professional development and training opportunities.

• Company virtual happy hours, free food, and enjoyable team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone stipend.

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for covered employees and their dependents.