About the company
SingleStore delivers the cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers.
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from conception to deployment.
- Work closely with product managers, designers, customers, and other engineers to ensure we deliver a high-quality experience.
- Drive the team's engineering standards, championing best practices in system design, code quality, testing, observability, and CI/CD pipelines to ensure we scale reliably.
- Solve complex, mission-critical system problems with solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and resilient.
- Mentor and guide more junior team members, coordinate with other stakeholders and contribute to process improvements, raising the technical bar across the team.
- Communicate complex technical decisions and trade-offs clearly, including their impact on system performance, reliability, and business outcomes.
- Partner cross-functionally with teams including Sales, Marketing, and G&A to support product delivery and customer success.
Requirements
- Strong understanding of and hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud services.
- 5+ years of experience developing and debugging system-level software in languages similar to Golang or TypeScript.
- Track record of leading non-trivial projects from design through production rollout, navigating ambiguity along the way.
- Strong communication skills with a passion for mentoring peers, fostering a collaborative team culture, and executing efficiently in a fast-paced environment.
- Passion for building high-quality products that are robust and easy to maintain in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred qualifications: Experience building cloud-native SaaS platforms, experience working with frontend web frameworks like React, prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical projects.