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Take part in the design and implementation of the internals of the next-generation highly scalable and high-performance analytical and vector database.\r\n\"VAST's data management vision is the future of the market.\" – Forbes\r\nVAST Data is the data platform company for the AI era, building enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets, and to make them available for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference. We design from the ground up to simplify AI deployment and management, taking cost and complexity out of enterprise and AI infrastructure across data center, edge, and cloud.\r\nOur success has been built on intense innovation, a customer-first mentality, and a team of fearless VASTronauts. This role is a key contributor at a pivotal time in our company's growth and in computing history.\r\nIn this role you will focus on the design and development of backend services that power our massively distributed, high-performance combined analytical and vector database, a critical component of VAST's AI data platform. This is your opportunity to work at the intersection of low-level systems programming, distributed computing, and AI infrastructure, pushing the boundaries of backend engineering for real-time, petabyte-scale data systems.\r\nWhat You'll Do\r\nArchitect and implement core backend components for a distributed vector database using C/C++.\r\nDesign highly scalable distributed data-structures and algorithms optimized for performance, concurrency, and fault tolerance.\r\nDevelop backend services that enable fast search, efficient indexing, and real-time analytics over massive datasets.\r\nOptimize system performance across multi-threaded and multi-node environments.\r\nEnsure low-latency, high-throughput data access and manipulation across global deployments.\r\nCollaborate closely with cross-functional teams to translate backend capabilities into real-world impact.\r\nRequirements\r\nMust Haves\r\n5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with strong proficiency in low-level C and C++.\r\nHands-on experience designing and building distributed backend systems or infrastructure at scale.\r\nExperience with distributed data-structures, algorithms and system reliability patterns.\r\nExpertise in multi-threaded programming, memory management, and performance tuning.\r\nProven track record of backend work on high-throughput databases, vector stores, or real-time processing engines.\r\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.\r\nNice to Haves\r\nExperience building or optimizing analytical or vector databases.\r\nFamiliarity with query engine internals, indexing techniques, or storage layer optimizations.\r\nKnowledge of Python or Java for integration or tooling.\r\nAdvanced degree (master's or PhD) in a related technical field (distributed systems, backend architecture, database internals).\r\nAbout the Company\r\nVAST Data is a data platform company for the AI era, building enterprise software infrastructure to capture, catalog, refine, enrich, and protect massive datasets for real-time data analysis and AI training and inference.\r\nJ-18808-Ljbffr","company":"SupportFinity","rawCompany":"supportfinity","city":"Vancouver","state":"WA","isRemote":false,"isActive":false,"createdAt":"2026-07-16T01:47:51.692Z","occupations":[{"code":"15-1252.00","title":"Software Developers","slug":"software-developers"},{"code":"15-1243.00","title":"Database Architects","slug":"database-architects"},{"code":"15-1299.08","title":"Computer Systems Engineers/Architects","slug":"computer-systems-engineers-architects"}],"industries":[{"code":"541512","title":"Computer Systems Design Services","slug":"computer-systems-design-services"},{"code":"513210","title":"Software Publishers","slug":"software-publishers"},{"code":"541511","title":"Custom Computer Programming Services","slug":"custom-computer-programming-services"}],"jobPosting":{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"JobPosting","title":"Senior Software Engineer - Database","description":"Senior Backend Software Engineer\r\nVAST Data is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join our growing team. 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