Senior Principal Software Engineer, Vertica

🔥 14 hours ago

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

🍂 Massachusetts – Remote

💵 $143k - $193.1k / year

⏰ Full Time

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Rocket Software

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1990

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Logistics • Marketing

Rocket Software is a company that specializes in IT modernization and hybrid cloud solutions. They provide a variety of products and services aimed at optimizing mainframe and cloud integration, enhancing security and compliance, and improving IT skills and efficiency through automation and innovation. Rocket Software offers solutions for content services, hybrid cloud, IBM i, security, and efficiency, along with modernization of enterprise applications, data, and infrastructure. Their focus is on helping organizations seamlessly bridge critical business applications and data with AI-powered solutions for increased productivity and decision-making, while maintaining robust security and resilience.

📋 Description

• Serve as a technical leader for the Vertica database platform • Define and drive architecture, design, and implementation of strategic innovations across the core server • Advance foundational database technologies including query optimization, distributed execution, storage, scalability, and performance • Act as subject matter expert across Vertica core server domains • Set technical direction and architecture for critical database engine components • Synthesize customer requirements, market trends, product strategy, and engineering input into technical direction and product requirements • Research and evaluate database algorithms, distributed systems techniques, and emerging technologies for practical application • Identify opportunities for innovation and deliver foundational enhancements improving performance, scalability, reliability, and operational efficiency • Architect complex database features and infrastructure for large-scale analytical workloads across distributed environments • Lead design and implementation of highly concurrent, high-performance C++ software • Guide evolution of the query optimizer, execution engine, distributed architecture, and related core server technologies • Document and communicate technical concepts, architectures, and design decisions • Collaborate across software development groups to address downstream product lifecycle impacts • Propose and implement innovations that improve Vertica’s competitive position and customer value • Drive improvements with significant impact across products, teams, and customer workloads • Participate in strategic planning, roadmap development, feature scoping, estimation, and prioritization • Work with software architects and product owners to align roadmaps and backlogs with architectural objectives • Guide functional, performance, scalability, resiliency, and stress testing strategies • Collaborate with customers, support teams, and field organizations to translate real-world challenges into technical solutions • Mentor engineers and technical leaders across the organization • Communicate with senior leadership and manage competing priorities while maintaining strategic focus

🎯 Requirements

• Minimum 12 years of software engineering experience, including significant experience developing complex systems software • Proven track record of successful software innovation, problem solving, and product delivery at increasing scale and complexity • Deep expertise in one or more database engine domains, including query optimization, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing, concurrency control, distributed systems, or database infrastructure • Expert knowledge of C++ and performance-oriented systems programming • Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, operating systems, and multi-threaded programming • Demonstrated experience designing and implementing large-scale distributed systems • Strong knowledge of SQL and relational database technologies • Ability to evaluate emerging research and translate innovative concepts into production-quality software • Able to take ownership of the design and development of large architectural components and define interactions across subsystems • Able to review designs and anticipate performance, scalability, reliability, and maintainability considerations • Proven success leading cross-functional technical initiatives and influencing engineering strategy across multiple teams • Recognized by peers as a superior technical contributor and technical leader • Exemplary at dealing with uncertainty and ambiguity • Proven success mentoring and developing software engineers at all levels • Excellent technical communication and collaboration skills • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems, or a related technical discipline required • Ph.D. or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Database Systems, Computer Engineering, or a related technical discipline is strongly preferred • Expertise in commercial database internals and database kernel development • Experience designing or implementing cost-based query optimizers • Experience developing distributed query processing or execution frameworks • Experience building highly scalable analytical database systems or massively parallel processing (MPP) database platforms • Experience shaping the architectural direction of a mature enterprise software platform • Record of innovation reflected through patents, publications, significant product contributions, or industry-recognized technical achievements • Prior experience contributing to the Vertica database engine or other large-scale analytical database platforms • Deep familiarity with Vertica core server architecture, query optimization, distributed execution, storage, catalog, transaction management, or related subsystems is highly valued • Demonstrated ability to influence the technical direction of a complex database platform through architectural leadership and long-term innovation

🏖️ Benefits

• Unlimited Vacation Time • Paid holidays and sick time • Health and Wellness coverage options for Rocketeers and dependents • Life and disability coverage • Fidelity 401(k) and Roth Retirement Savings with matching contributions • Monthly student debt benefit program • Tuition Reimbursement and Certificate Reimbursement Program opportunities • Leadership and skills training opportunities • Reasonable accommodation for individuals with disabilities