The opportunity
Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.
What you'll do
Write and review production Rust code across ingestion, query execution, and storage layers
Lead architectural decisions on storage format, compaction, indexing, and query planning
Drive performance investigations using memory and CPU profiling tools; own: the path from profiling to shipped fix
Design and harden the distributed deployment of SmithDB services on: Kubernetes (multi-tenant, high-throughput, low-latency)
Contribute to cloud object store integrations (S3, GCS, Azure Blob) and set: the standard for how SmithDB manages data at rest and in flight
Build and maintain observability for the engine itself: metrics, tracing, debug tooling
What they're looking for
- Manage a small but growing team of systems engineers: set goals, run 1:1s, provide technical mentorship, and grow careers
- Own the SmithDB technical roadmap in partnership with LangSmith product and engineering leadership
- Communicate progress, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to the broader: organization: you write concise, decision-ready updates
- + years in systems or database engineering, with at least 2 years in a: technical lead or engineering management role
