Senior Graph DB Engineer - RDF/SPARQL Internals

Bloomberg; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Bloomberg is seeking a seasoned software engineer to help build and operate its RDF triplestore infrastructure, powering semantic data across Bloomberg products. The role focuses on graph database internals, storage and query execution, and performance at enterprise scale.

You will work with RDF, SPARQL, and related technologies in a large-scale environment, contributing to the core data backbone that enables semantic querying and analysis of Bloomberg data.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of professional software development experience.
• Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or related field or equivalent practical experience.
• Hands-on experience developing database or graph database internals.
• Experience developing RDF triplestore, labeled property graph, or related graph database infrastructure.
• Strong understanding of storage engines, indexing, query planning, transactions, and replication.

Responsibilities

• Develop and operate Bloomberg's RDF triplestore infrastructure.
• Work on storage engines, indexing, query planning and execution.
• Focus on scalability, reliability, and performance of graph data systems.

Skills

Software development

Graph databases

SPARQL

Java

System design

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science/Engineering/Mathematics or related field

Tools

RDF4J

LMDB

RocksDB

PostgreSQL

Java

Python

SPARQL

SHACL

RDF

Inference

Job description

Bloomberg is seeking a seasoned software engineer to help build and operate its RDF triplestore infrastructure, powering semantic data across Bloomberg products. The role focuses on graph database internals, storage and query execution, and performance at enterprise scale.

You will work with RDF, SPARQL, and related technologies in a large-scale environment, contributing to the core data backbone that enables semantic querying and analysis of Bloomberg data.