Our client is a community-developed, commercially supported fork of the MySQL relational database management system, making a huge impact on the world. 

Responsibilities

As a member of the development team, you will be responsible for subsystem design, design reviews, and of course, portions of the implementation. You should be an experienced C developer and be comfortable with development of concurrent systems in an asynchronous programming model. Your experience in the following areas is highly desired:

Systems Design and Implementation

• Distributed Group Membership and Reliable Communication
• Distributed Concurrency Control and Transaction Management (2PL, MVCC, 2PC)
• Distributed Lock Management and Distributed Deadlock Detection
• Fault Tolerance in Distributed Systems
• High Concurrency B-Tree Implementation

Database Query Processing/Optimization and Language Design

• Distributed Query Planning and Optimization
• Design and Implementation of Rule-Based Languages (Prolog/Datalog)
• Compiler Design, Implementation, and Optimization
• SQL Parser Implementation
• Columnar Databases and/or Analytics

Network Protocol Design and Implementation

• Design and Development of High-Performance Protocol Stacks
• Experience with Asynchronous Programming models

Qualifications

• Distributed database development
• File System Development
• Unix/Linux/BSD Kernel and Systems Development
• Large Scale Systems Architecture and Implementation
• Understanding of database QoS technologies
• Experience working in virtualized (cloud) environments
• 5-10 years of prior experience in systems development
• Excellent technical communication skills, the ability to elaborate complex technical concepts and collaborate effectively with fellow engineers
• Language requirement: English, our corporate language
• Problem-solving mindset
• A passion for high-quality software and ability to work with a small team in a distributed company