Senior Backend Engineer - Open Catalog & Iceberg

Dremio; United States; Remote; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Dremio is building the future of data analytics with a unified lakehouse platform, seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own catalog features and contribute to Apache Polaris and Iceberg integrations. You will work on metadata APIs, security, and multi-tenant concerns, influencing design and production readiness in a distributed system.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code for correctness, and mentor teammates while using AI-assisted tools under careful review.

Qualifications

• Five or more years of professional software development experience.
• Strong Java skills with production codebase exposure.
• Experience owning backend features from design to rollout.
• Ability to turn incomplete product requirements into implementation-ready specifications.
• Experience directing AI coding agents and reviewing their plans and outputs.
• Strong code-review judgment around concurrency, authorization, performance, and maintainability.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.

Responsibilities

• Own multiple features within the Catalog team, from requirements and technical design through implementation, testing, rollout, and production support.
• Extend Apache Polaris while preserving compatibility with the Iceberg REST Catalog specification.
• Build catalog APIs and services for namespaces, tables, views, identities, permissions, and metadata operations.
• Diagnose production issues using logs, metrics, traces, and service data, then address the underlying cause.
• Write design documents for the features you own and review designs from other engineers.
• Work with query engine, security, platform, and product teams to define interfaces and manage dependencies.
• Improve test coverage, operational tooling, and engineering practices in the areas you touch.
• Review code with attention to correctness, security, maintainability, and performance.
• Share technical knowledge with the team and help onboard or mentor newer engineers.
• Contribute fixes and features upstream when they belong in Apache Polaris or another open-source project.
• Use AI-assisted development tools for code comprehension, debugging, and test generation, while verifying their output through engineering review and testing.

Skills

Java

Distributed systems

API design

Concurrency

Data structures

Code review

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Apache Polaris

Iceberg REST Catalog

Kubernetes

Job description

Dremio is building the future of data analytics with a unified lakehouse platform, seeking a Senior Software Engineer to own catalog features and contribute to Apache Polaris and Iceberg integrations. You will work on metadata APIs, security, and multi-tenant concerns, influencing design and production readiness in a distributed system.

You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, review code for correctness, and mentor teammates while using AI-assisted tools under careful review.