Staff Software Engineer, Query Engine – Rust

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $196k - $265k / year

⏰ Full Time

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📋 Description

• Design, build, and optimize Burrow’s distributed query execution, indexing, and storage layers • Design query APIs, semantic layers, and serving patterns for AI products and agents • Build high-performance data processing and serving systems for large-scale healthcare datasets using Rust, SQL, Python, DuckDB, or Spark • Expand Burrow to support provider data and new query types • Partner with upstream data engineering, product, platform, data science, quality, application, and Labs@Komodo teams • Lead complex, multi-quarter initiatives and make trade-offs across performance, scalability, cost, reliability, and delivery • Implement data quality checks, validation, observability, lineage, monitoring, and alerting • Improve engine latency, throughput, query cost, reliability, failure handling, and operational readiness • Lead migration of legacy query workloads onto Burrow without customer disruption • Mentor engineers and raise standards for system design, code quality, testing, CI/CD, documentation, and AI-augmented workflows

🎯 Requirements

• Experience writing high-performance systems code in Rust, Erlang, or C++ • End-to-end ownership of services, including production operations • Deep knowledge of analytical engine internals, including Parquet, Arrow, indexing, pruning, compression, compaction, query planning, and execution • Experience building on or extending Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse, DuckDB, DataFusion, or Trino • Ability to design data models, serving patterns, platform components, and architectures for complex, high-volume data environments • Track record of setting technical direction across teams and driving multi-quarter architecture decisions • Experience building query or serving infrastructure consumed by AI/ML systems, LLM-driven products, or high-volume real-time traffic • Experience profiling and tuning distributed systems across memory, CPU, I/O, NVMe, caching, partitioning, and failure handling • Ability to communicate technical decisions and trade-offs clearly to technical and senior stakeholders • Hands-on use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or Claude • Healthcare data experience, warehouse migrations, high-scale data architecture, applied AI workflows, and fast-growth execution are nice to have

🏖️ Benefits

• Performance-based bonuses may be available • Equity awards may be available • Comprehensive health insurance • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Flexible time off and holidays • 401(k) with company match • Disability insurance • Life insurance • Leaves of absence in accordance with applicable laws and company policy • Remote or hybrid work options • In-office flexibility for hub-based employees

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