Senior Software Engineer, Real-Time Query Engine (C++/Rust)

IBM; Hursley; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance the Realtime Context Engine, focusing on multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure and core query execution components. You will tackle challenges at massive scale across Confluent Cloud, ensuring reliable performance and scalability.

Required expertise includes C++ and/or Rust, 3-5 years building database technologies, and experience with distributed systems.

Qualifications

• Experience building database technologies and large-scale database systems.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement query execution strategies for multi-tenant, massive-scale environments.
• Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure for data processing tasks.
• Collaborate with product, design and other engineers to integrate storage features and infrastructure.

Skills

C++

Rust

Distributed Systems

Database technologies

Communication & collaboration

Education

Master’s Degree

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Velox

Substrait

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

IBM Software is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to advance the Realtime Context Engine, focusing on multi-tenant, highly available compute infrastructure and core query execution components. You will tackle challenges at massive scale across Confluent Cloud, ensuring reliable performance and scalability.

Required expertise includes C++ and/or Rust, 3-5 years building database technologies, and experience with distributed systems.