Senior Software Engineer, Voltron Data
Golang
$150-200k
Plus Equity
Enterprise support for Apache Arrow
Job no longer available
Enterprise support for Apache Arrow
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
$150-200k
Plus Equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To bring the best of open-source together and build bridges across the data analytics ecosystem with Apache Arrow.
Role
Who you are
- Significant experience with Golang
- Prior experience with data engineering / data science
- Familiarity and experience with crafting new APIs and implementing protocols
Desirable
- Open source development practices and social dynamics
- Build systems and continuous integration
- Binary protocols, binary representation issues
- Performance profiling with Golang
- The Apache Arrow format and one or more of its implementations with significant share in the ecosystem (C++, Python, Rust, Java, etc…)
- Interoperability between Go and C++ via CGO shared libraries
What the job involves
- We are looking for a highly motivated Open Source Golang Engineer to join Voltron Data’s Open Source Engineering team
- On the team, you’ll have the opportunity to help support and grow several open source projects used by hundreds of companies worldwide
- You will work closely with the Voltron Data team and the Apache Arrow community to help with maintaining the Apache Arrow and Parquet Golang implementations along with subprojects such as Arrow Flight and Arrow Database Connectivity (ADBC)
- You will also be directly involved with the community, managing GitHub pull requests, issues, and StackOverflow questions
- Addressing high priority tasks for Golang development for ADBC, Flight RPC / Flight SQL, Substrait and apache Arrow
- Enhancing library quality and reliability
- Adding new features and APIs to improve the ease and efficiency of development on the libraries
- Answering user tickets (bugs, feature requests), helping contributors, reviewing Pull Requests
- Writing and improving prose documentation, tutorials, etc
- Spreading Apache Arrow awareness by potentially authoring blog posts and attending conferences
- Upon Joining:
- Spending time learning about the Apache Arrow memory layout and Go implementation
- Familiarizing yourself with the ADBC, Arrow Flight and FlightSQL specifications
- Learning and embracing the Apache development process
- Within a month:
- Implementing new enhancements and updates to the Arrow Flight and FlightSQL implementations
- Participating in peer code review of all PRs related to Go for the Apache Arrow and ADBC projects
Our take
Voltron Data offers enterprise support to companies using the increasingly popular open source Apache Arrow software development platform. Its flagship service is designed specifically for companies that wish to leverage the power of Apache Arrow, but are unable or unwilling to handle the intricacies of Arrow.
The strong links to Apache Arrow are easy to explain, as co-founders Wes McKinney and Joshua Patterson were heavily involved in the creation and rise in popularity of the Apache Arrow project. In a way, a major part of Voltron Data’s remit is to promote the software development platform, while making it more palatable and user-friendly for customers.
With the likes of Google and Microsoft now adopting Apache Arrow into their own projects, Voltron Data has been able to attract incredible amounts of investment, despite only launching its first commercial product in early 2022. Voltron Data has focused on growing all aspects of its team and acquired real-time AI platform startup Claypot AI in 2024, indicating that it's maintaining its momentum.
Kirsty
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Insights
1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
Feb 2022
$88m
SERIES A
Feb 2022
$22m
SEED
Total funding: $110m
Company benefits
- Work from Anywhere - Payroll and Benefits in 150+ Countries
- Unlimited PTO
- Medical, Dental, and Vision
- Retirement [USA Only]
- Home Office Budget
- Continuing Education Budget
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Joshua Patterson
(CEO)Former Data Science Principal at Accenture Technology Labs, former Senior Director for Rapids.ai, an end to end platform for accelerating data science on NVIDIA GPU.
Wes McKinney
(Senior Advisor)Before co-founding Voltron Data, they were a part of the Project Management Committee for the creation of the Apache Arrow project. Creator of the Python pandas project, which made Python the go-to language for data science, machine learning and AI.
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