TiDB, powered by PingCAP · 4 hours ago
Principal Software Engineer - Optimizer
United States
Full-time
Remote
Lead/Staff
10+ years expTiDB, powered by PingCAP, is a global player in the database market, known for its open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database. The Principal Engineer on the TiDB Optimizer team will lead the architectural vision and execution of the query optimization engine, impacting performance and reliability for global users.
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Responsibilities
10+ years of experience in software development with a proven track record of designing, building, and shipping complex database systems or data-intensive distributed systems
Extensive hands-on experience in the design and development of a database query optimizer (e.g., cost-based optimization, query rewrites, join ordering, cardinality estimation, statistics collection)
Strong expertise in concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization primitives
Fluency in one or more of the following: C, C++, Go, Rust, or Java
Experience developing in Unix/Linux environments
Qualification
Required
10+ years of experience in software development with a proven track record of designing, building, and shipping complex database systems or data-intensive distributed systems
Extensive hands-on experience in the design and development of a database query optimizer (e.g., cost-based optimization, query rewrites, join ordering, cardinality estimation, statistics collection)
Strong expertise in concurrency, multithreading, and synchronization primitives
Fluency in one or more of the following: C, C++, Go, Rust, or Java
Experience developing in Unix/Linux environments
Preferred
Familiarity with existing query optimizer frameworks like Apache Calcite or GPORCA
Practical experience with other database or data processing technologies such as Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, MySQL, Flink, or Spark
Tackle some of the most challenging problems in distributed databases and query optimization
Your work will be critical to the performance of thousands of TiDB clusters worldwide
Join a world-class team of database kernel engineers and be a recognized technical leader
Contribute to a leading open-source project with a vibrant and active community
Company
TiDB, powered by PingCAP
Founded in 2015, TiDB was born from the vision of three talented software engineers who set out to build a database system that would be more scalable and reliable than MySQL, while retaining its rich ecosystem of tools and frameworks.
501-1000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$641.6MKey Investors
GGV Capital,Sequoia Capital5Y Capital,Access Technology Ventures,Anatole,GGV Capital,Jeneration Capital5Y Capital,Fosun International,Morningside
2021-05-01Series D· $300M
2020-11-17Series D· $270M
2018-09-11Series C· $50M
Leadership Team
Dylan Cui
Co-founder
Edward Huang
Co-Founder | CTO
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