Principal Software Engineer – Distributed

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🕒 May 21

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MariaDB

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201 - 500 employees

Founded 2009

🏢 Enterprise

Enterprise • Open Source • Database

MariaDB is a company that develops and provides an open-source cloud-native relational database solution. Known for its MariaDB Server and MariaDB Enterprise offerings, it delivers high availability, auto-failover capabilities, and supports both transactional and analytical workloads. MariaDB is favored for its flexibility, cost-effectiveness compared to proprietary databases, and support for various data models, including relational and JSON. It is widely used in Linux distributions as a replacement for MySQL and is popular among developers for its open-source innovation and ease of use.

📋 Description

• Build and test distributed database solutions that scale • Make systems rock-solid in performance and reliability, across both on-prem and cloud • Work on replication, sharding, and consistency models (Raft, MVCC, ACID) • Profile, debug, and fine-tune performance with tools like perf, htop, iostat—and your own tricks • Keep code clean and reviewable with Git • Shape infrastructure using CMake or Bazel • Configure and monitor with YAML/JSONnet, Prometheus, and Grafana • Dive into Linux/Unix internals (systemd, cgroups, logging, core dumps) • Automate testing and performance validation with load-testing scripts (YandexTank or your own)

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of professional experience in C++ (Python/Bash scripting a plus) • Deep SQL knowledge (MariaDB/MySQL/PostgreSQL) and passion for distributed systems (Raft, MVCC, ACID etc) • Solid background in distributed systems, concurrency, and multithreading • Comfort with Linux/Unix systems (systemd, cgroups, logging, etc) and debugging tools • Hands-on experience with performance profiling with tools like perf, htop, or iostat • YAML/JSONnet for configs plus familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana) • Bonus points for open-source contributions, automation expertise, or performance/load testing

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote or Hybrid work options (location dependent) • 25 days paid annual leave (plus holidays) • a culture that values creativity and clean engineering