Software Engineer - Systems

Spiral; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative company is seeking exceptional engineers to revolutionize data storage with a next-generation multimodal data warehouse. This role focuses on deep technical infrastructure projects, including optimizing storage engines, enhancing distributed systems, and improving query performance. Join a forward-thinking team dedicated to blending open-source solutions with proprietary architecture, and play a pivotal role in launching cutting-edge products that will redefine data management across various domains. If you are passionate about high-performance software and cloud technologies, this opportunity is perfect for you.

Qualifications

• Deep experience in low-level, high-performance software.
• Expertise in cloud-scale storage systems and distributed architectures.

Responsibilities

• Optimize file formats and storage engines for performance.
• Build and improve cloud-native data warehouse architecture.
• Enhance query execution speed and consistency.

Skills

Low-level programming

High-performance software development

Cloud-scale storage systems

Distributed systems architecture

Query optimization

Job description

Spiral is building a multimodal data warehouse to provide a unified storage model for complex domains. Think: weather and climate, financial, time-series, genomics, point-clouds, videos and images.

We're reinventing storage with innovative data layouts, compression strategies, and orchestration layers, blending open-source building blocks like Vortex with proprietary cloud data warehouse architecture.

We're looking for exceptional engineers with deep experience in low-level, high-performance software and cloud-scale storage systems. They will work on deep, technical infrastructure projects focused on building the next-generation multimodal data warehouse.

Key projects:

• File Format & Storage Engine Optimization

• Distributed Systems Architecture - Help build the actual cloud-native data warehouse, Spiral’s core commercial product

• Query Execution & Engine Performance - Improve query speed and consistency across multimodal data

• Launch Readiness & Customer Enablement - Work on the last-mile polish to bring Spiral’s warehouse product to alpha/beta customers

• Cloud Infrastructure & Internal Services - build backend services