Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer m/f/x

Crate Io; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Competitive pay

Flexible hours

Flexible holidays

Fitness

Education

Stock options

Job summary

CrateDB is seeking a versatile software engineer to join its open source ecosystem team. You will develop and maintain drivers and adapters for CrateDB, contribute to third-party integrations, and work closely with the FLOSS community and core engineers on projects managed on public GitHub.

The role emphasizes cross-language production readiness, strong debugging and collaboration with partners across Grafana, Airflow, Kafka, and more, while helping to improve PostgreSQL compatibility and

Qualifications

• Proficient in Python and Java; multi-language capability preferred.
• Experience with test-driven development and production-grade code.
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills; customer-focused OSS mindset.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain drivers/adapters for CrateDB.
• Connect CrateDB with external tools (Grafana, Airflow, etc.).
• Build and maintain internal admin tooling and documentation.
• Improve PostgreSQL compatibility and ecosystem integrations.
• Collaborate with open source community and partners on joint projects.
• Support product managers with technical requirements.

Skills

Python

Java

Rust

C++

Golang

Swift

Zig

Test Driven Development

SQL

Debugging

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Job description

DAILY PLAYGROUND

ABOUT THE ROLE

In this position we are looking for a jack-of-all-trades database driver and ecosystems engineer, who would love to work together with the FLOSS community and our core team to support it on drivers and adapters for CrateDB, a distributed time-series database. You will be working directly with some of our founding engineers, mostly on projects managed on public GitHub. We need your help to develop and maintain drivers and adapters for CrateDB, and also contribute to 3rd party applications and frameworks to improve their integration capabilities with CrateDB, very close to other open source software projects like SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow and Grafana, just to name a few. You see that we are looking for someone who lives and breathes open source.

WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THIS OPPORTUNITY

• Join a leading VC funded tech company from the pre-B stage through the exit
• Benefit from a welcoming and supportive working climate
• Be part of an open collaborative culture with “Craties” from diverse backgrounds

WHAT YOU’RE RESPONSIBLE FOR

• Develop and maintain
• Drivers for CrateDB (JDBC, Python/SQLAlchemy, etc.)
• Connections to external tools (Grafana, Tableau, Airflow, etc.)
• Internal administrative tools (crash CLI, Admin UI)
• Improve PostgreSQL-compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem
• Migration tools from/to other databases systems and storage formats
• Write and maintain technical documentation like reference architectures, integration examples, etc.
• Work and interact with your Open Source community and technical partners on joint projects
• Support our Product Managers with technical requirements

YOUR SKILLS

• Applying craftsmanship (mfx) to continuously improve and take over responsibility for existing code bases
• Knowledge about standards and protocols, and what they are used for. Not limited to -but we use - HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, and JDBC
• Good knowledge of at least Python and Java, and preferably experience with additional languages like Rust, C++, Golang, Swift, or Zig
• Experience with test driven development
• Knowledge about versioning, packaging and shipping (in a polyglot software environment), and how software is operated in production environments
• Comfortable working with relational databases and SQL
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Self-directed, hands-on engineer, who can dig through all the obstacles involved in driving specific development efforts forward, in a "Fullstack" manner, assuring software quality, documentation, and communication, to finally ship the software component at hand

NICE TO HAVE

• Existing Open Source contributions are valuable but not a requirement
• Knowledge and/or experience with message bus systems like AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, or ZeroMQ, and their corresponding broker implementations
• Knowledge and/or DevOps experience in containerized environments (Docker, K8s)

WHAT WE OFFER

• Remote workplace: We can offer you a direct position at one of our entities in Germany and Austria or through Remote.com in your home country
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours
• A variety ofperks(flexible holidays, fitness, education)
• Participation in our Employee Stock Options Plan

At CrateDB, we don't just accept different - we celebrate it and support it. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or gender identity.