Database Engineer - - Remote

Experience :- minimum 6+ years Job Type - Full-Time Permanent role Job Location - Hybrid Model Shift timing - Day Shift (Hiring for US Product based company) Experience Required: Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related technical field. Masters or PhD a plus. 6+ years experience engineering software and data platforms / enterprise-scale data warehouses, preferably with knowledge of open source Apache stack (especially Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, Kafka, and others). 3+ years experience with Scala and Apache Spark (or Kafka). A track record of recruiting and leading technical teams in a demanding talent market. Rock solid engineering fundamentals; query planning, optimizing and distributed data warehouse systems experience is preferred but not required. Nice to have: Knowledge of blockchain indexing, web3 compute paradigms, Proofs and consensus mechanisms is a strong plus but not required. Experience with rapid development cycles in a web-based environment. Strong scripting and test automation knowledge. Nice to have: Passionate about Web3, blockchain, decentralization, and a base understanding of how data/analytics plays into this. Responsibilities: Writing Scala code with tools like Apache Spark + Apache Arrow + Apache Kafka to build a hosted, multi-cluster data warehouse for Web3. Developing database optimizers, query planners, query and data routing mechanisms, cluster-to-cluster communication, and workload management techniques. Scaling up from proof of concept to “cluster scale” (and eventually hundreds of clusters with hundreds of terabytes each), in terms of both infrastructure/ architecture and problem structure. Codifying best practices for future reuse in the form of accessible, reusable patterns, templates, and code bases to facilitate meta data capturing and management. Managing a team of software engineers writing new code to build a bigger, better, faster, more optimized HTAP database (using Apache Spark, Apache Arrow, Kafka, and a wealth of other open source data tools). Interacting with exec team and senior engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components. Highly engaged with industry trends within analytics domain from a data acquisition processing, engineering, management perspective. Understand data and analytics use cases across Web3 / blockchains. Interacting with exec team and senior engineering leadership to define, prioritize, and ensure smooth deployments with other operational components. What we offer Aggressive bonus structure AND tokens (similar to stock options) Very Flexible PTO and paid holidays, and flexible workweek Very flexible remote work options A massive list of perks including add-on bonuses for hard work, attending exciting events/conferences/parties, we’re headquartered on the beach near LA (but don’t mind you working remote) and we’ll fly you to our company offsites.