Senior Software Engineer — Lakehouse Systems

Highlights

• Build foundational lakehouse systems for AI at petabyte and exabyte scale.
• Own core infrastructure behind Crunch for continuous data optimization.
• Make massive lakehouse tables faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

What they offer

• Meaningful equity
• Performance bonus for top performers
• 401(k) with company match
• Comprehensive health coverage
• Unlimited PTO
• Daily catered meals in Mountain View office
• Support for research, publication and conference participation

Ideal candidate

Deep systems builder who loves storage and data infrastructure and wants ownership of foundational systems. Hands-on, high-caliber engineer excited to solve hard cost and performance problems at massive scale.

Requirements

• Strong depth in distributed systems, storage systems, databases, or data infrastructure
• Production experience with lakehouse technologies such as Iceberg, Delta Lake, Hudi, Spark, Trino, Presto or Flink
• Hands-on experience with columnar formats such as Parquet or ORC
• Understanding of metadata-driven architectures, transaction semantics, query planning and physical data layout
• Experience with table maintenance, compaction, clustering, file sizing, pruning, snapshot expiration or garbage collection
• Familiarity with object-store-backed environments such as S3, GCS and ADLS
• Background in storage engines, query engines, indexing, caching, encoding, compression or adaptive optimization