Database Engineer - Storage and Query ; Introduction Astra DB is a NoSQL Database running on the Cloud, and it is internally powered by Apache Cassandra. In Astra DB we run datasets of hundreds of Terabytes of data, with super low latency, both for writes and for reads. The Astra DB Query and Storage team contributes to improve Astra DB in various areas such as Indexing, Querying features improvement, Vector Search, Disk formats, Compaction, and storage optimization among others.
Your role and responsibilities include contributing to designing and implementing new features, improving existing code, investigating system behavior, collaborating on data structures and disk formats, and operating the software on Kubernetes and on the Cloud.
Required education: None. Preferred education: Bachelor's Degree.
Preferred technical and professional experience includes some experience with Cassandra or other database technologies, expertise about JVM performance best-practices, troubleshooting performance issues, and experience with Linux or other Unix-like systems.