Senior Staff Engineer

InfluxData makes InfluxDB, the time series database. InfluxDB 3.0 is a columnar database backed by object storage and written from scratch in Rust on Apache Arrow, Arrow Flight and DataFusion.

This senior staff engineer is a company-level technical leader for InfluxDB 3.0, reporting to the Chief Product Officer. You would write production Rust for the storage engine, covering ingestion, compaction, columnar storage on object stores, caching and query execution, and drive the hardest work on distributed caching, reliability and performance. Alongside the code you would help set the long-term technical vision for the product line, shape roadmap and build-versus-buy decisions with other engineering leaders, set standards across teams, take part in on-call and mentor staff and senior engineers.

InfluxData wants 15+ years of software engineering with several at senior staff level or above, a record of building and running large distributed systems, hands-on work across AWS, GCP or Azure and object storage, and deep Rust or strong systems experience with a will to master Rust. Time series or observability workloads and running a managed database service are a plus.

Pay is $240,000 to $290,000 a year plus equity and benefits. Remote in the United States.