Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer

Who you are

• Applying craftsmanship (mfx) to continuously improve and take over responsibility for existing code bases
• Knowledge about standards and protocols, and what they are used for. Not limited to - but we use - HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, and JDBC
• Good knowledge of at least Python and Java, and preferably experience with additional languages like Rust, C++, Golang, Swift, or Zig
• Experience with test driven development
• Knowledge about versioning, packaging and shipping (in a polyglot software environment), and how software is operated in production environments
• Comfortable working with relational databases and SQL
• Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
• Self-directed, hands-on engineer, who can dig through all the obstacles involved in driving specific development efforts forward, in a "Fullstack" manner, assuring software quality, documentation, and communication, to finally ship the software component at hand
• Existing Open Source contributions are valuable but not a requirement
• Knowledge and/or experience with message bus systems like AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, or ZeroMQ, and their corresponding broker implementations
• Knowledge and/or DevOps experience in containerized environments (Docker, K8s)

What the job involves

• In this position we are looking for a jack-of-all-trades database driver and ecosystems engineer, who would love to work together with the FLOSS community and our core team to support it on drivers and adapters for CrateDB, a distributed time-series database
• You will be working directly with some of our founding engineers, mostly on projects managed on public GitHub. We need your help to develop and maintain drivers and adapters for CrateDB, and also contribute to 3rd party applications and frameworks to improve their integration capabilities with CrateDB, very close to other open source software projects like SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow and Grafana, just to name a few. You see that we are looking for someone who lives and breathes open source
• Develop and maintain
• Drivers for CrateDB (JDBC, Python/SQLAlchemy, etc.)
• Connections to external tools (Grafana, Tableau, Airflow, etc.)
• Internal administrative tools (crash CLI, Admin UI)
• Improve PostgreSQL-compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem
• Migration tools from/to other databases systems and storage formats
• Write and maintain technical documentation like reference architectures, integration examples, etc
• Work and interact with your Open Source community and technical partners on joint projects
• Support our Product Managers with technical requirements

Benefits

• Flexible working hours
• A variety of perks (e.g., financial allowances for public transportation, fitness, and education)
• Participation in our Employee Stock Options Plan
• The opportunity to become part of one of the most exciting startups in the IT scene (Winner of the 2021  IoT Evolution: Industrial IoT Product of the Year Award)