Senior Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $180k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

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LanceDB

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11 - 50 employees

Founded 2022

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

🏢 Enterprise

☁️ SaaS

Artificial Intelligence • Enterprise • SaaS

LanceDB is the first open-source AI-Native Multimodal Lakehouse designed to handle complex AI data needs on a large scale. It offers a unified solution for multimodal data, integrating storage, search, feature engineering, and analytics into a single platform. This enables users to efficiently manage diverse data types and workflows, facilitating rapid iteration and deployment of AI models. With advanced capabilities such as hybrid search and optimized training pipelines, LanceDB is built for enterprises seeking to leverage their data effectively in AI applications.

📋 Description

• Design and maintain efficient distributed Lance dataset operations • Build efficient indices to enable predicate pushdown and accelerate queries in Spark, Ray, or Trino • Work on table formats, data encodings, and various aspects of the Lance format in Rust • Drive open-source community efforts to integrate the Lance format with Spark, Hive Metastore, Presto, Trino, Ray, and other data infrastructure systems • Operate and improve internal data processing infrastructure • Promote the Lance format in open-source communities and at Big Data conferences • Contribute scale and performance improvements, integrations with the wider data and AI ecosystem, simplified distributed operations, and usability and maintainability enhancements

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience building high-performance databases, big data systems, or large-scale data services • Deep understanding of internals of open-source Big Data or AI training systems (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Flink, Ray, Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, ClickHouse, Trino, Presto, PyTorch, or JAX) • Strong experience with high-performance computing in C++, Java, and/or Scala • Experience with Rust or willingness to learn it • Ability to move fast, work independently, and collaborate with a high-caliber team • Contributor, committer, or PMC member in Apache or other large open-source projects • Experience with Apache Arrow, DataFusion, Parquet, Iceberg, or Delta Lake • Track record of driving large features or integrations in distributed systems • Strong community presence and passion for open-source collaboration

🏖️ Benefits

• Equity grants • Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance • 401(k) retirement plan • Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) and Health Savings Accounts (HSA) • Commuter benefits • Generous paid time off • Paid parental leave program for birthing, non-birthing, adoptive, and foster parents