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 Developer in Test, you will be a critical part of our growing company,
helping to improve the testability, robustness, and performance of the
development process at QuestDB. You will work alongside core database developers
and liaise with end-users to better understand performance and stability issues.
As part of the engineering team, you will ensure the system meets specifications
through functional testing, integration, and quality analysis. You will work
with both developers and customers (who are developers) to understand symptoms
and write tools and tests to reproduce stability and performance performance
issues. You will write fuzz and load tests to uncover issues ahead of customers
discovering them.
Responsibilities
- Actively respond to user issues and help solve them independently
- Deeply understand customer issues to reproduce symptoms and understand the
cause - Work with database source code and be comfortable running database instances
and test cases in debug mode - Eliminate flaky tests to ensure continuous integration remains unblocked
- Work with the source code to understand concurrency issues
- Write test suits to illustrate customer issues and to maintain regression
suite - Examine customer tables in a hex editor to understand the impact of production
data on system behavior - Fuzz and stress-test database components
- Infer issues through log timeline and actively contribute to improvement of
log messages - Provide input to improve development process to deliver robust and stable
software
Requirements
- 3+ years experience as a software engineer or developer in test
- Excellent written and communication skills
- Empathy to user problems
- Experience with SQL and Java
- Familiarly with low level software engineering
- Experience working with GitHub source code management, and CI/CD tools
- Strong team player who is open to guiding colleagues on your areas of
expertise - The ability to understand, shape and deliver against customers’ requirements
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 Developer in Test position by visiting the link below and submitting your personal details. Attach links to your portfolio where relevant (LinkedIn, GitHub, personal website, etc.)
