Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable DB & Storage

Zoomcar; Seattle (WA); Hybrid; USD 170,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Paid time off

Professional development budget

Job summary

Superhuman is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Platform team within Superhuman Docs. This role focuses on the foundation powering every table, grid, and view in the platform, requiring deep expertise in storage, query planning, and distributed systems.

You will work across the tables layer, sync engine, and formula runtime, ensuring correctness and performance while mentoring engineers and shaping the architecture for scalable, secure data management.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of industry experience, with 5+ in relevant technologies.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to the structured data storage layer including cell storage, row ordering, index management, view materialization, and query execution.
• Improve platform handling of large, complex tables at scale: lazy hydration, data compaction, cache invalidation, and lifecycle of cell data through the sync pipeline.
• Develop server-side query planning for database-backed tables, pushing filters, sorts, and groupings closer to the data layer.

Skills

Storage internals

Query planning

Index management

Concurrency

Performance engineering

Full-stack TS

Tools

PostgreSQL

MySQL

RocksDB

SQLite

Job description

Superhuman is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Platform team within Superhuman Docs. This role focuses on the foundation powering every table, grid, and view in the platform, requiring deep expertise in storage, query planning, and distributed systems.

You will work across the tables layer, sync engine, and formula runtime, ensuring correctness and performance while mentoring engineers and shaping the architecture for scalable, secure data management.