Software Engineer, Metadata, Munich

Who we are:

Firebolt is developed by a global group of data leaders who share a passion for high performance databases and a vision to meet the rising need for instant analytics experiences for data intensive apps. Together, we're building the world's fastest and most efficient cloud data warehouse.

About the Team:

Firebolt’s Metadata Team is responsible for components within the data warehouse that provide metadata information for firebolt control & dataplane. Aside from “user data”, Firebolt keeps meta-information to make user data accessible and useful. The challenge of the Metadata team is to hold this data and serve it with low latency in an ACID compliant way. We're solving challenges around high scalability, concurrency and performance, like implementing distributed transactions and snapshot isolation.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Take part in the definition of Firebolt’s product design and architecture
• Design, build, and maintain Firebolt’s cutting-edge metadata solution
• Work closely with other Firebolt teams to provide a seamless data experience

• 5+ years as a backend engineer
• Fluency in Go, C++, C#, Java or Rust
• Production experience with Kubernetes, including using open source solutions from the eco-system
• Hands on experience in building and operating cloud native applications on AWS, GCP or Azure
• Strong Linux fundamentals and an understanding of networking, including a variety of network protocols, especially AWS networking
• Experience building and operating highly concurrent, highly available, and fault-tolerant distributed systems
• Expertise in Algorithms, Data Structures, Concurrency and Design Patterns

A bonus if you have: 

• Experience using Go in production
• Familiarity with databases such as FoundationDB, Aerospike or any high-performance KV-store
• Familiarity with distributed computing, networking, lockless algorithms and data structures
• Experience with message brokers and data/stream processing (Kafka, RabbitMQ)