Description:

The Senior Software Engineer - Database Internals position at Timescale involves designing, coding, and testing the core of their PostgreSQL-based time-series database.
Responsibilities include contributing to the development of new database capabilities, improving existing functionality, optimizing infrastructure, collaborating with the Cloud Engineering team, and providing technical assistance to customers.
The role requires expertise in C/C++, 5+ years of engineering experience, knowledge of SQL, query processing, database engines, concurrency control, and distributed systems.
Candidates should be passionate about building reliable system software and have experience with industry-standard software validation tools.

Requirements:

Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases.
5+ years of engineering experience.
Knowledge of SQL, query processing, database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems.
Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable.
Passion for building highly reliable system software.
Familiarity with industry-standard software validation tools like Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc.