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This role is based in San Francisco.\n\nWhat you'll do\n\nEngineer performant Rust code for ingestion and query execution\n\nOptimize for cost and speed, heavily utilizing memory and CPU profiling\n\nIntegrate tightly with cloud object stores (S3/GCS/Azure Blob)\n\nDeploy our distributed database services on Kubernetes (multi-tenant, high throughput, low latency)\n\nContribute to observability for the storage engine itself (metrics, tracing, debug tooling)\n\nWhat you'll bring\n\n5+ years in systems/database engineering with strong experience in a systems programming language (Rust, C++). 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