The opportunity
The Database Systems team specializes in high-performance distributed databases. Our team built Rockset, the real-time search, analytics, and vector database that powers all vector search and retrieval augmented generation (RAG) at OpenAI.
What you'll do
Design, build, and operate high-performance distributed systems
Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks to scale infrastructure to the next order of magnitude
Define long-term technical direction and guide system evolution
Collaborate with product, engineering, and research teams to deliver scalable and reliable infrastructure
Dig deep into complex production issues across the stack
Contribute to incident response, postmortems, and best practices for system reliability
What they're looking for
- Have significant experience building, scaling, and optimizing distributed systems at scale
- Are curious about database internals, storage engines, or low-latency query systems
- Enjoy debugging challenging performance issues in complex, high-throughput systems
- Have experience operating production clusters at scale (e.g., Kubernetes or other orchestration systems)
