Senior Software Engineer KWT

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Requirements:

• A PhD in database systems or a track record of working on products focusing on database internals and/or query optimization.
• Experience building scalable, reliable products and features, and desire to work in a fast-paced, startup-like environment.
• Track record of rapidly prototyping ideas and building MVPs for customer feedback.
• Experience using algorithm development for performance enhancing projects.
• Strong desire to partner with product to turn customer requirements into well-specified, technical work.
• Passion for mentoring engineers in database optimization knowledge and rapid delivery.
• Writes clean, high quality, well-documented, readable code, with good test coverage.
• Extensive familiarity with ETL pipelines, SQL, databases, data warehouses, and big data processing tools.
• Experience with object-oriented programming best practices.
• Skilled at communicating effectively in a distributed environment with people across multiple time zones.
• Ability to work in US Eastern time or Central European time.
• Extreme sense of ownership, from requirements gathering with product and customers all the way to running and monitoring production deployments and service reliability and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Partner with product and work directly with customers to deeply understand customer needs with regards to query performance tuning and query cost optimization.
• Perform data-driven research to identify innovative solutions to solve customer pain points.
• Create tightly-scoped greenfield products and features, designed for fast iteration based on customer feedback.
• Build algorithms to automatically optimize queries for cost and performance.