About QuestDB
We have built the fastest open source time series database from the ground up to
offer breakthrough performance for real-time analytics. We are the fastest
growing database within the fastest-developing database category.
Developers rely on QuestDB as the analytic backbone of real-time systems ranging
from FinTech to machine learning, IoT, and application monitoring. Fortune 500
companies such as Airbus and Yahoo deploy QuestDB for large-scale,
data-intensive production systems, some of which serve close to a billion users.
Our HackerNews
launch was the third biggest for an open source company at Y Combinator, and
our open source repository has gathered 7k stars to date. We are a
product-first company with a community encompassing more than 10k developers. We
are a remote-first company backed by leading venture capital firms and Y
Combinator.
The role
As a Cloud Engineer, you will be a critical part of our growing company, leading
the design and launch of a greenfield cloud-hosted database as a service (DBaaS)
solution. Ideally, you have a background as a full-stack software engineer, and
you specialize in cloud-native technologies, distributed systems, and
orchestration platforms.
Responsibilities
- Create a multi-cloud offering for our customers from the ground up
- Design and implement Kubernetes orchestration operator
- Design procedures for troubleshooting and maintenance of the DBaaS system.
- Own the rollout and deployment to customers
- Automating resource provisioning including compute and storage resources,
logging, and monitoring - Automating resource management such as scaling data ingress and egress,
load-balancing, and backups - Full task automation, such as resources provisioning, cloud backup,
monitoring, scaling data ingress, scaling number of requests, logging,
optimization of compute and storage resources - Build tools which reduce occurrences of errors and improve customer experience
- Design procedures for system troubleshooting and maintenance
- Configuration of cloud network interfaces
Requirements
- 5+ years experience working with cloud technologies
- Excellent knowledge of cloud architecture design (e.g., AWS Well-Architected)
- Experience building scalable, resilient, and secured applications
- Expert software development skills in either Python or Node.js / TypeScript
- Proficient with Kubernetes
- Experience with CI/CD & Infrastructure as Code (e.g., Terraform)
- Experience with automated testing, logging and monitoring
- Experience with load balancing/proxies, network architecture and security
- Experience building and scaling public APIs
- Experience with SQL
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Strong team player who is open to guiding colleagues on your areas of
expertise
A candidate who has any of the following skills would stand out:
- Experience with React
- Experience with C++ and Java
- Interest in low-level programming
What we offer
- Generous equity options package
- Flexible working hours
- 100% remote
- Freedom of choice for your technical equipment
- Wonderful, highly qualified colleagues
- Truly international: more than 10 different nationalities
- A transparent, collaborative & inclusive culture
- Exciting opportunities for career progression as we grow
- Little to zero controls combined with autonomous work where you
set your own pace in a collaborative environment
Working at QuestDB
We hire talented and passionate people who share our mission to empower
developers to solve their problems with data. We are building breakthrough
technology to power the infrastructure of tomorrow.
- We are a company with thousands of users; our mission is to empower them
- We invest in a culture that promotes ownership, autonomy and independent
thinking - We have transparent leadership and value employees’ strategic inputs
- Our team is ambitious and tackles the most difficult problems at the deepest
data infrastructure layer
Get in touch!
Apply for the Cloud Engineers position by visiting the link below and submitting your personal details. Attach links to your portfolio where relevant (LinkedIn, GitHub, personal website, etc.)
