Staff Software Engineer - Remote HPC/Distributed Systems

BuddiesHR; United States; Hybrid; USD 102,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Bonus pay

401(k)

Medical insurance

Paid time off

Job summary

Circana seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design and optimize a massively parallel processing (MPP) clustered database engine (Whitebox) powering real-time analytics for retailers and manufacturers.

You will implement low-latency C++ kernels, vectorized code (AVX-512, ARM Neon), distributed memory concepts, and in-database ML integration, collaborating across time zones.

This hybrid Chicago-based role offers ownership and a culture that values curiosity, clarity, and inclusivity.

Qualifications

• Minimum - 4 years Computer Science engineering degree from a reputed institute. Masters in HPC (high performance computing) and Bigdata engineering areas preferred for Senior staff engineer and above roles
• 6+ years of production experience writing hands-on, low-level systems in C++ (C++17/20/23 preferred). Mastery of template metaprogramming, concepts, coroutines, and custom memory allocators is key.
• Very good to expert-level knowledge of cluster-scale distributed programming using MPI paired with shared-memory thread-level programming via OpenMP and MapReduce frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Architecture & Design: Key role in core architectural choices and roadmap for our distributed database kernel.
• Low-Level Development: Write, optimize, and maintain highly performant backend code in C++20/23.
• Parallel Execution Planning: Architect MPP engines for many nodes using MPI and OpenMP.
• Hardware Optimization: Vectorization with AVX-512, ARM Neon, SVE; cache locality.

Skills

C++20/23

Distributed systems

HPC

Performance tuning

MPI/OpenMP

Education

Master's in HPC

CS degree

Tools

Valgrind

Purify

Diagnostics tools

Job description

Circana seeks a Staff Software Engineer to design and optimize a massively parallel processing (MPP) clustered database engine (Whitebox) powering real-time analytics for retailers and manufacturers.

You will implement low-latency C++ kernels, vectorized code (AVX-512, ARM Neon), distributed memory concepts, and in-database ML integration, collaborating across time zones.

This hybrid Chicago-based role offers ownership and a culture that values curiosity, clarity, and inclusivity.