Staff Software Engineer - Distributed Data Systems

🕒 June 18, 2025

🏢🏡 Bangalore – Hybrid

⏰ Full Time

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🧑‍💻 Full-stack Engineer

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Onehouse

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

☁️ SaaS

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

SaaS • Artificial Intelligence • Data Management

Onehouse is a company that offers a fully managed cloud data lakehouse solution, enabling rapid data ingestion and support for multiple query engines at scale and reduced cost. It specializes in helping organizations maintain a unified source of data truth using Apache Hudi while optimizing ETL processes and eliminating operational burdens. Onehouse allows for seamless querying with various data engines and ensures optimal performance and security, making it easier for businesses to manage large data volumes for analytics, AI, and machine learning purposes.

📋 Description

•About Onehouse •Onehouse is a mission-driven company dedicated to freeing data from data platform lock-in. We deliver the industry’s most interoperable data lakehouse through a cloud-native managed service built on Apache Hudi. Onehouse enables organizations to ingest data at scale with minute-level freshness, centrally store it, and make available to any downstream query engine and use case (from traditional analytics to real-time AI / ML). •We are a team of self-driven, inspired, and seasoned builders that have created large-scale data systems and globally distributed platforms that sit at the heart of some of the largest enterprises out there including Uber, Snowflake, AWS, Linkedin, Confluent and many more. Riding off a fresh $35M Series B backed by Craft, Greylock and Addition Ventures, we're now at $68M total funding and looking for rising talent to grow with us and become future leaders of the team. Come help us build the world's best fully managed and self-optimizing data lake platform! •The Community You Will Join •When you join Onehouse, you're joining a team of passionate professionals tackling the deeply technical challenges of building a 2-sided engineering product. Our engineering team serves as the bridge between the worlds of open source and enterprise: contributing directly to and growing Apache Hudi (already used at scale by global enterprises like Uber, Amazon, ByteDance etc) and concurrently defining a new industry category - the transactional data lake. The Data Infrastructure team is the grounding heartbeat to all of this. We live and breathe databases, building cornerstone infrastructure by working under Hudi's hood to solving incredibly complex optimization and systems problems.

🎯 Requirements

•Strong, object-oriented design and coding skills (Java and/or C/C++ preferably on a UNIX or Linux platform). •Experience with inner workings of distributed (multi-tiered) systems, algorithms, and relational databases. •You embrace ambiguous/undefined problems with an ability to think abstractly and articulate technical challenges and solutions. •An ability to prioritize across feature development and tech debt with urgency and speed. •An ability to solve complex programming/optimization problems. •An ability to quickly prototype optimization solutions and analyze large/complex data. •Experience running production services, at scale. •Robust and clear communication skills. •Nice to haves (but not required): •Experience working with database systems, Query Engines or Spark codebases. •Experience in optimization mathematics (linear programming, nonlinear optimization). •Existing publications of optimizing large-scale data systems in top-tier distributed system conferences. •PhD degree with 2+ years industry experience in solving and delivering high-impact optimization projects.

🏖️ Benefits

•Equity Compensation; our success is your success with eligible participation in our company equity plan •Health & Well-being; we'll invest in your physical and mental well-being by reimbursing up to 20,000 INR for your monthly insurance premium •Financial Future; we'll invest in your financial well-being by making this role eligible for the provident fund of which Onehouse will contribute up to 1800 INR/month •Location; we are a remote-friendly company (internationally distributed across N. America + India), though some roles will be subject to in-person requirements in alignment with the needs of the business •Generous Time Off; unlimited PTO (mandatory 1 week/year minimum), uncapped sick days and 17 paid company holidays •Food & Meal Allowance; weekly lunch stipend, in-office snacks/drinks •Equipment; we'll provide you with the equipment you need to be successful and a one-time $500 (USD) stipend for your initial office/desk setup •Child Bonding!; 26 weeks off for birthing and 12 weeks for surrogate and adoptive parents - fully paid so you can focus your energy on your newest addition

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