Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer

🕒 March 27

🌐 Austria, Germany – Remote

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⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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CrateDB

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2013

🏭 Manufacturing

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

💰 $14M Series A - CrateDB on 2020-09

Manufacturing • Consulting • Logistics

CrateDB is a distributed, real-time analytics database built to ingest, index, and query high-velocity and high-cardinality data at scale using standard SQL. It combines time-series, JSON, geospatial, full-text, and vector capabilities in a single engine to support real-time analytics, search, and AI workflows with options for DBaaS, hybrid-cloud, or self-managed deployments. CrateDB targets engineering and data teams who need low-latency dashboards, streaming analytics, and scalable operations without complex pipelines or pre-aggregation.

📋 Description

• Develop and maintain drivers for CrateDB, including JDBC and Python/SQLAlchemy • Build connections to external tools such as Grafana, Tableau, and Airflow • Develop and maintain internal administrative tools, including crash CLI and Admin UI • Improve PostgreSQL compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem • Develop migration tools to and from other database systems and storage formats • Write and maintain technical documentation, including reference architectures and integration examples • Work with the Open Source community and technical partners on joint projects • Support Product Managers with technical requirements • Work directly with founding engineers on projects managed on public GitHub • Contribute to third-party applications and frameworks including SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow, and Grafana

🎯 Requirements

• Knowledge about standards and protocols, including HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, and JDBC • Good knowledge of at least Python and Java • Preferably experience with Rust, C++, Golang, Swift, or Zig • Experience with test driven development • Knowledge about versioning, packaging, and shipping in a polyglot software environment • Knowledge of software operation in production environments • Comfortable working with relational databases and SQL • Strong debugging and problem-solving skills • Self-directed, hands-on engineering approach • Ability to take responsibility for existing code bases and drive development efforts in a fullstack manner • Ability to assure software quality, documentation, and communication • Existing Open Source contributions are valuable but not a requirement • Knowledge and/or experience with message bus systems such as AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, or ZeroMQ and corresponding broker implementations is nice to have • Knowledge and/or DevOps experience in containerized environments such as Docker and K8s is nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Remote workplace • Competitive compensation • Flexible working hours • Flexible holidays • Fitness perks • Education perks • Participation in the Employee Stock Options Plan • Welcoming and supportive working climate • Open collaborative culture with diverse backgrounds