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About the Position:

The Database engineering team is based in the Bay Area, Toronto and India. The team has the DNA of building highly scalable, mission critical enterprise products. As part of building our team in India, we are looking for engineers and leaders who are passionate about working on the RDBMS technology of massive scale and one that thrives with continuous innovation. We are looking for a Senior Database Development Engineer to design and develop features in the database query planning, optimization and execution. Candidate must have strong database internals background to work with a team that is responsible for designing, developing and testing of a RDBMS. In this role, you will closely work with your lead Engineer on all aspects of Agile processes and work closely with scrum team on relational database development. You are responsible to develop complex features with the scalability and performance needed to match the staggering growth of our service
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As a senior software engineer of the database development team, you will be responsible for:

• Drive the design and delivery of medium complex features independently
• Be an SME in your area of work and manage feature complexity with backlog planning, cross-team dependency planning and successful execution on the plan.
• Own the design decisions and ensure Quality and Security standards are met.
• Contribute to analysis, design, test and code reviews of own and related areas across different scrum teams
• Setting and improving engineering best practices/processes on relevant tooling, instrumentation, telemetry and playbook.
• Designing and coding the features for high quality.
• Timely resolution of Customer issues with utmost urgency and adhering to customer trust

Requirements:

• 10+ years in software development which includes experience in varying aspects of development cycle, including design, coding, testing and performance characterisation, and possessing 4+ years of direct database kernel development experience
• Experienced with design and development of medium/high complex and high performance features
• Experience working with a group of developers in a high-pace high-demand environment
• Experience in Agile development
• Experience in SaaS development environment, cloud and container technologies is a plus.
• Experience in C or C++ server development. Working exposure in Java is helpful.
• Experience with relational database kernel development, demonstrated by working on critical areas of a successful commercial or an open source RDBMS
• Track record of delivering innovative and complex features for a major software system
• Excellent communication skills and problem-solving skills
• Experience with highly-scalable and highly-available systems.

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