Senior Ecosystem Database Engineer
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Ecosystem Database Engineer developing open-source drivers, adapters, and integrations for CrateDB, a distributed time-series database. Improving PostgreSQL compatibility and third-party ecosystem connections.
Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain drivers for CrateDB, including JDBC and Python/SQLAlchemy
- Build connections to external tools such as Grafana, Tableau, and Airflow
- Develop and maintain internal administrative tools, including crash CLI and Admin UI
- Improve PostgreSQL compatibility of CrateDB and its ecosystem
- Develop migration tools to and from other database systems and storage formats
- Write and maintain technical documentation, including reference architectures and integration examples
- Work and interact with the open source community and technical partners on joint projects
- Support Product Managers with technical requirements
- Work directly with founding engineers on projects managed on public GitHub
- Contribute to third-party applications and frameworks such as SQLAlchemy, pandas, Dask, Apache Kafka, Flink, Superset, Airflow, and Grafana
Requirements:
- Knowledge about standards and protocols, including HTTP, PG Wire Protocol, Python DB API, and JDBC
- Good knowledge of at least Python and Java
- Preferably experience with additional languages such as Rust, C++, Golang, Swift, or Zig
- Experience with test-driven development
- Knowledge about versioning, packaging, and shipping in a polyglot software environment
- Understanding of how software is operated in production environments
- Comfortable working with relational databases and SQL
- Strong debugging and problem-solving skills
- Self-directed, hands-on engineering approach
- Ability to drive development efforts forward in a full-stack manner while assuring software quality, documentation, and communication
- Existing open source contributions are valuable but not required
- Knowledge and/or experience with message bus systems such as AMQP, Kafka, MQTT, or ZeroMQ and corresponding broker implementations is nice to have
- Knowledge and/or DevOps experience in containerized environments such as Docker and Kubernetes is nice to have
Benefits:
- Welcoming and supportive working climate
- Open collaborative culture with colleagues from diverse backgrounds
- Remote workplace, with direct employment through entities in Germany and Austria or through Remote.com in the employee's home country
- Competitive compensation
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible holidays
- Fitness perks
- Education perks
- Participation in the Employee Stock Options Plan
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