Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer (m/f/x)

About the Position

Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer (m/f/x)

Remote/Germany

Full-time

Permanent employee

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ABOUT THE ROLE

In this position, we are looking for a versatile database driver and ecosystems engineer who would love to work with the FLOSS community and our core team to support 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.

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WHAT YOU GET OUT OF THIS OPPORTUNITY

• Join a leading VC-funded tech company from the pre-B stage through the exit
• Benefit from a welcoming and supportive working climate
• Be part of an open collaborative culture with “Craties” from diverse backgrounds

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Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain drivers for CrateDB (JDBC, Python/SQLAlchemy, etc.)
• Establish connections to external tools (Grafana, Tableau, Airflow, etc.)
• Develop internal administrative tools (crash CLI, Admin UI)
• Improve PostgreSQL-compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem
• Create migration tools from/to other database 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

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Requirements

• Applying craftsmanship 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

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Nice to Have

• 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)

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We Offer

• Remote workplace: We can offer you a direct position at one of our entities in Germany and Austria or through Remote.com in your home country
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours
• A variety of perks (flexible holidays, fitness, education)
• Participation in our Employee Stock Options Plan

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About the Company

Join CrateDB to become part of an international open source software and database company that's revolutionizing SQL database management for developers. On our journey, we like to explore, code, solve customer problems, and develop our database to become even better.

Who works at CrateDB?

An amazingly diverse group of talented individuals, who together make an awesome team. If you are creative and have a self-start attitude, then you would fit into the CrateDB team incredibly well. Come grow with us! Our people work in agile teams, always willing to take on new challenges as we continue to develop our technology. We love what we do… And we are total geeks at heart. Whilst working on some database stuff, we also like to explore, travel, make friends, eat, and code.

Our Mission

With offices in Europe, Crate.io unifies a multi-cultural group of people. The Crate.io team is distributed globally, connected with the common goal of working hard and playing harder in that the successes are celebrated as a reward for hard work. The company’s mission is to put the customer’s machine data to work, empower the employees to work cohesively as teams to build the best database technology in the world, whilst having some fun along the way.