Staff Connectivity Engineer - Lead High-Performance Data Access

Dremio

United States

Remote

USD 150,000 - 210,000

Full time

4 days ago

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Job summary

Dremio, the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, is seeking a Staff Software Engineer for its Connectivity team. You will own substantial features across client drivers, protocols, and connectors, shaping the roadmap and delivering production-ready solutions.

You will mentor engineers and collaborate with Product, QA, SRE, and external partners to ensure API stability, reliability, and scalable design.

Qualifications

Experience owning multiple features from problem definition through design, implementation, validation, release readiness, and operational handoff.
Deep expertise in at least one connectivity area (e.g., JDBC/ODBC, Apache Arrow, BI interoperability).
Experience mentoring engineers and influencing partner teams.

Responsibilities

Own substantial connectivity work: Lead multiple medium-to-large features or service components from problem definition through design, implementation, validation, release readiness, and operational handoff.
Turn ambiguity into an execution plan: Define reviewable milestones, acceptance measures, dependencies, estimates, and risks for complex customer, product, and engineering goals.
Design scalable, maintainable systems: Produce technical designs and architecture diagrams, explain trade-offs, and make feature and service-level decisions across drivers, protocols, client libraries, connectors, and distributed services.
Diagnose complex failures: Lead root-cause analysis across client/server, protocol, network, authentication, metadata, and distributed-system boundaries using logs, telemetry, profiles, benchmarks, and production evidence.
Build compatibility and reliability: Maintain API and protocol stability; create automated compatibility, interoperability, performance, scale, reliability, observability, and diagnostics coverage; and define practical migration paths for supported and legacy clients.
Collaborate and influence: Partner with Product, Query Execution, QA, Support, SRE, Documentation, and external technology partners to resolve dependencies and improve delivery.