Senior Software Engineer, Query

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🌐 Canada, United States – Remote

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💵 $156.5k - $215k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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CircleCI

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

Software • SaaS • Development Tools

CircleCI is a continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that empowers engineering teams to automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software efficiently. With robust features like automatic testing, end-to-end visibility, and progressive delivery, CircleCI helps organizations streamline their software development workflows and deploy applications with confidence. It caters to developers of all sizes, offering flexibility and integration across various environments.

📋 Description

• Build AI-natively, using AI as the default starting point for approaching and solving engineering problems • Own and harden the ClickHouse-based storage layer • Design schemas for known and emerging access patterns • Tune ingestion and query performance for production-scale data • Design and own ingestion from event streams and durable Temporal workflows • Ensure data arrives reliably, remains queryable in transit, and does not slow critical-path services • Evolve the platform into the default path for historical queries • Build indexing, caching, and tiered storage for performance • Lead design discussions, document architecture decisions, and determine data-domain migration priorities • Use Honeycomb, Datadog, and Rollbar to monitor ingestion lag, query latency, and data correctness • Take ambiguous data problems from design through production • Fix immediate issues and address the underlying team practice, process, or system

🎯 Requirements

• Daily use of AI tools and ability to discuss how they have changed engineering approaches and where they fall short • Experience building or owning data-intensive systems, ingestion pipelines, event-driven architectures, or analytical and time-series datastores • Understanding of tradeoffs between transactional and analytical storage • Experience designing schemas and tuning queries for high-volume workloads • Experience with ClickHouse or another columnar database is a strong plus • Strong Go skills, or strong comparable-language skills with willingness to work in Go • Go interface design, data modeling, service integration, and concurrency • Familiarity with React and TypeScript is a plus • Understanding of delivery guarantees, idempotency, backpressure, and failure recovery • Experience leading the design of complex systems and making deliberate tradeoffs • Experience raising quality through reviews, mentoring, and direct feedback • 5+ years building and operating production backend systems • Experience serving real users and treating latency, reliability, and correctness as design concerns

🏖️ Benefits

• Reasonable accommodation for applicants and employees with disabilities • Equal employment opportunity and affirmative action • Ability to request human-only application review • Ability to opt out of AI interview note-taking without affecting candidacy