Member of Technical Staff (Rust, Search & Database Engines)

Spice AI • Bellevue, WA

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About The Position

Building data-driven AI applications and agents is currently too complex, even for advanced developers, requiring them to piece together various systems like query engines, search systems, caches, and AI tooling. Spice AI aims to simplify this by unifying query federation, search, and AI into a single runtime for building intelligent applications, making AI-powered software development as easy as modern web application development. They offer both open source and fully managed cloud deployments. Spice AI hires for Merit, Excellence, and Intelligence, seeking exceptional, ambitious builders driven to solve hard problems and push the boundaries of AI. The company is looking for a Rust Software Engineer to lead database development in Spice.ai OSS, focusing on designing and building high-performance database engine features in Spice.ai, Apache DataFusion, Apache Ballista, Arrow, Iceberg, Vortex, and duckdb-rs. They are interested in candidates passionate about open source, distributed systems, and database internals. Spice AI was founded in June 2021 by Microsoft and GitHub alumni Luke Kim and Phillip LeBlanc and is backed by top industry angel investors and VCs.

Requirements

• 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience.
• Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production database-engines, distributed, and data systems.
• A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running.
• Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development.

Nice To Haves

• Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects.

Responsibilities

• Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project.
• Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform.
• Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences.
• Work directly with enterprise customers and build with them to enable their scenarios.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 1-10 employees