Staff Software Engineer: Scalable Query Engine & Infra

International Business Machines Corporation; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

IBM Software in San Diego is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Realtime Context Engine, including multi-tenant compute infrastructure and core components for query execution and background materialization at scale.

You will tackle challenges in efficient execution at massive scale across Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability while collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams to align storage features with organizational goals.

Qualifications

• Master's degree in Computer Science or related field.
• 10+ years of professional experience in database technologies.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement strategies for query execution and caching at massive scale.
• Build and maintain multi-tenant, highly available infrastructure for database tasks.
• Collaborate with product, design, and engineering teams to integrate storage features with the broader platform.

Skills

C++

Rust

Distributed systems

Large-scale databases

Education

Master's Degree

Tools

Apache Iceberg

Velox

Substrait

Job description

IBM Software in San Diego is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to advance the Realtime Context Engine, including multi-tenant compute infrastructure and core components for query execution and background materialization at scale.

You will tackle challenges in efficient execution at massive scale across Confluent Cloud, ensuring high availability and scalability while collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams to align storage features with organizational goals.