Senior/Staff Software Engineer (Database Internals)

At Readyset, we are building a database cache with zero integration cost - just swap your connection string and take read latencies from ~100's of ms to under a ms while reducing costs. It precomputes the results of prepared statements (i.e. parameterized SQL queries) and incrementally updates these results over time as the underlying data in your database changes.

Readyset is wire-compatible with MySQL and Postgres, so it can be integrated with your existing application without code or database changes– Readyset makes it easy for developers to build performant web, analytical, and internal applications regardless of whether they’re deployed to a single region or around the world. 

We’re looking for people who are excited about exploring and productionizing the frontier of distributed systems and DB research to join our fully-remote team. You’d be a great fit at Readyset if you're excited about bringing to market data infrastructure that makes applications faster, simpler, and easier to deploy.

We’re looking for Senior to Staff level Software Engineers who are experts in one or more of the following: database internals, stream processing, SQL compilers, and SQL query optimization and are excited to continue expanding their depth of knowledge in these fields. This role involves scoping, designing, and building components of the Readyset SQL cache. You will be formulating ways to represent various queries as dataflow graphs, so an avid interest or prior academic experience in relational algebra and query optimization is highly desirable. The position includes a research element.

In your day-to-day work, you’ll iterate on and build production-level code with a growing user base, robust design structure, and rigorous code quality. As a part of a small and growing team, you’ll also work cross-functionally to help scope out product requirements, respond to new customer needs, and develop code to solve complex problems.

As a part of our engineering team, you’ll collaborate with other team members to contribute to process improvements, give product and architectural feedback, and work towards making Readyset more robust and feature-complete. 

Readyset is a Rust shop, so we are looking for candidates who would also be interested in becoming an expert in writing industrial-grade software in a modern systems programming language that was deemed most beloved by StackOverflow developer surveys for 6 years in a row.

• Design, build, and maintain core components of Readyset, with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
• Provide technical leadership by guiding architectural decisions, and advocating for robust, scalable, and supportable systems.
• Collaborate cross-functionally to translate user needs and product goals into technical solutions.
• Contribute to and help shape engineering processes that prioritize code quality, system observability, and operational excellence.
• Communicate complex technical concepts clearly and effectively; both in writing and verbally with internal stakeholders and external contributors.
• Actively share your work and insights through blog posts, tech talks, and other channels to help establish Readyset as a go-to resource in the data infrastructure space.

• 8+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
• 6+ years of experience working on database internals including query optimization, relational data, query processing, or caching.
• Considerable expertise in compilers, systems programming, concurrency, caching, batching, etc.
• Fluency in one of the following: Rust, C, C++, Golang, or other systems programming languages.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• At least 4 hours of working hours overlap with US Pacific timezone. 

We have raised over $28m from Amplify Partners, Index Ventures, Sequoia Capital and great angel investors to fuel our growth and help us take our product from an ambitious research prototype to general availability. The salary range for this role is $150,000 - $220,000 USD per year. This salary range includes multiple levels and locations. Your level is based on our assessment of your interview performance and experience, which you can always ask the hiring manager about to understand in more detail.

Salary is just one component of Readyset’s total compensation package for employees. Your total rewards package will include equity, top-notch medical, dental and vision coverage, unlimited PTO (with minimum vacation recommendations), and more.

We offer unlimited PTO with minimum vacation recommendations and encourage our team members to take time off whenever they need it. We also offer 90 days of paid parental leave.

A few times a year, the whole company meets to facilitate in-person collaboration and team bonding. In addition, we actively encourage participation at conferences and events. 

We make time for our remote team to learn together and have fun together even if we are miles away. We have virtual game hours, and an internal tech talk series.
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Having a product rooted in research out of MIT, a commitment to learning is a requisite trait of every team member. We work on cutting-edge problems in distributed systems and are looking for engineers ready to rise to the challenge as we revolutionize the use of SQL in modern web applications. We want to be a company where all employees are excited to continue learning and growing in their area of expertise, no matter which role or team they are a part of.

Though every team member at Readyset is individually exceptional, many of the problems we are solving have not been solved before. This means engineering at Readyset is a team sport.  We strive to give every engineer ownership over their work while giving them the resources they need to produce high-quality solutions. We welcome feedback on our own ideas and create timelines with the assumption that part of every day will be spent helping others. We also trust that during disagreements, every teammate will prioritize finding the best possible solution over being right. We encourage collaboration and humility over ego. 

As a growth stage company tackling huge engineering challenges, sometimes we fail. When this happens, we don’t place blame or keep score and are willing to acknowledge when we could have done better. Most importantly, we are committed to learning and improving as much as possible from every failure so we have a higher chance of succeeding the next time.

ReadySet knows that a diverse workforce directly contributes to a higher quality product for our customers. We have put immense effort into fostering an inclusive, diverse work environment from the time of the company’s founding. We expect everyone to bring empathy and respect to all of their interactions with coworkers and customers. Encouraging everyone to bring their unique perspectives to the table when solving problems helps us build and deliver stronger products.