Senior Software Engineer - Autonomous DB Optimizer Remote

Creandum; United States; Remote; USD 81,000 - 112,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first work environment

Equity options

Annual learning budget

Team-building budget

Job summary

CAST AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Database Optimisation team to design and build high-performance services in Go and Rust. You will work on the Database Gateway, Database Agent and caching, with a focus on correctness and validated recommendations for production databases.

The role involves shaping architecture and roadmap for autonomous database administration, collaborating with product and engineering teams in a remote-first environment.

Qualifications

• Strong software engineering fundamentals with clean abstractions.
• Professional experience building production services in Go.
• In-depth knowledge of PostgreSQL or MySQL.
• Understanding of database clients, drivers and wire protocols.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and operate the Database Gateway.
• Develop high-performance services in Go and Rust.
• Work on database caching, rate limiting and gateway capabilities.
• Build the Database Agent’s recommendation engine.
• Create methods for safely validating database recommendations before production.

Skills

Go production services

Rust

PostgreSQL/MySQL knowledge

Kubernetes

Cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure)

Performance tuning

Debugging complex systems

Tools

Go

Rust

PostgreSQL

MySQL

Kubernetes

Job description

CAST AI is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for the Database Optimisation team to design and build high-performance services in Go and Rust. You will work on the Database Gateway, Database Agent and caching, with a focus on correctness and validated recommendations for production databases.

The role involves shaping architecture and roadmap for autonomous database administration, collaborating with product and engineering teams in a remote-first environment.