Posted 5 weeks ago

Senior Software Engineer

Celonis

New York City, New York, United States 🇺🇸

Onsite
Full Time
Software Engineering

$161,000 - $218,000 year

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We are looking for senior backend developers who enjoy building systems with the capability to manage big data. Within our Query Engine and Core Mining teams, we are looking for a senior C++ Software Engineer, who develops and implements new features and algorithms for our core engine and increases the reliability and performance of existing components
With your general knowledge of working with modern C++, coupled with experience in developing high-performance large-scale data processing systems, you will create new, innovative algorithms and operators for our query engine
Identify and implement novel query optimization, transaction management, or distributed data processing algorithms in the Core Mining Engine
Analyze and understand performance and scalability bottlenecks in the system and solve them
Deal with issues from logical representations of the execution plan to efficient resource management, all the way down to highly parallel vectorized execution
Design and implement critical high-performance systems to handle the ever-growing request rate on our database
Evangelize best practices in database usage and end-to-end architecture
Set an example for and mentor and grow your teammates
Recognize and take action to improve the developer work environment
Write clean, understandable, and testable code
Provide feedback on the designs and code of peers
Manage individual project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables
Document development procedures, concepts and knowledge
Build, launch, and maintain features in production
Help define a fun and inclusive engineering culture
Have an analytical mind and a good understanding of complex data structures and algorithms in data management
BS in Computer science; Masters or Ph.D. preferred
3+ years of hands-on software engineering experience
Have a curiosity about how things work and a desire to improve them
Significant background in database internals or building core components (query optimization, query execution, storage engines, transaction processing) for large-scale data processing systems (e.g., Starrocks, ClickHouse, etc)
Experienced in programming with C++ (17)