Principal Engineer - Distributed Database

Huawei Technologies Canada Co., Ltd.; Markham; On-site; CAD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology firm in York Region, Markham is seeking a Principal Engineer to lead research and development of innovative distributed databases. The ideal candidate will have over 10 years of experience in database design, proficient in C and C++, and possess strong mentorship abilities. Responsibilities include system development, continuous enhancements, and quality assurance testing. This role offers a great opportunity for those looking to impact next-generation cloud technology.

Qualifications

• 10+ years experience with design and development of distributed databases or systems.
• Experience in open source community is an asset.
• Excellent documentation, organization, and communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop distributed transaction processing database management systems.
• Mentor junior colleagues on algorithm design and software engineering aspects.
• Work with QA to drive overall solution quality.

Skills

C programming

C++ programming

Algorithm design

Data structures

High performance scalable code

Education

Bachelor's in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications

Master's or PhD

Job description

Huawei Canada has an immediate permanent opening for a Principal Engineer.

About the team:

The Distributed Data Storage and Management Lab leads research in distributed data systems, aiming to develop next-generation cloud serverless products that encompass core infrastructure and databases. This lab addresses various data challenges, including cloud-native disaggregated databases, pay-by-query user models, and optimizing low-level data transfers via RDMA. Teams within this lab create advanced cloud serverless data infrastructure and implement cutting-edge networking technologies for Huawei's global AI infrastructure.

About the job:

• Research and development of distributed, highly available transaction processing database management system focusing on algorithms for scale up and scale out.

• Work with a team of architects and engineers to develop proof-of-concept systems and components across the data manager, buffer manager and transaction processing components.

• Investigate and design new data structures and algorithms focusing on lockless and NUMA aware approaches on the latest and state of the art hardware technology.

• Continuous enhancements on the distributed database system to fulfill customer requirements for self-tuning under differing workload conditions.

• Mentor junior colleagues on algorithm design, data structure and software engineering aspects focusing on high performance scalable code.

• Work with QA and continuous integration teams to drive a quality overall solution though a combination of automated unit tests, functional testing and system testing of the solution.

About the ideal candidate:

• Proficient in C and C++ programming.

• 10+ years’ experience with design and development of a distributed database, or storage system, or file system, or cache system.

• Experience in open source community is an asset.

• Excellent documentation, organization and communication skills.

• Publication history and patent success is an asset.

• Bachelor's in Computer Science/Electrical Engineering/Telecommunications; Master's or PhD is an asset.