Software Engineer, MotherDuck
Database
€116-160k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
Data analytics platform
Job no longer available
Data analytics platform
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
€116-160k
+ Equity
3 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To radically transform the data analyst user experience.
Role
Who you are
- You’ve built and shipped complex backend systems, and you know what great looks like
- Are fluent in C++, Rust, or similar systems languages, and comfortable working close to the metal
- A foundational understanding of query engines, execution plans, indexing, and performance optimization techniques is essential
- Are experienced with cloud infrastructure, networking, and building low-latency distributed systems
- Can scope and lead projects with multiple collaborators and cross-functional dependencies
- Take pride in clear thinking, careful design, and thoughtful tradeoffs
- Are comfortable mentoring peers and creating a collaborative, high-agency environment
What the job involves
- We’re looking for a Software Engineer to join our Database Team and lead substantial pieces of this system
- This is a high-impact role: you’ll architect and build hybrid execution paths, ensure performance at scale, and guide the evolution of how users interact with MotherDuck
- You’ll join a small team with big ambitions and the agency to pursue bold ideas
- Own major projects in our dual execution stack, enabling seamless local/cloud query processing with DuckDB
- Help build a Cloud platform that dynamically assigns resources, making DuckDB efficient both for small use cases and a 1 TB RAM instances
- Lead cross-functional work across our frontend, platform, and infrastructure teams to ensure a coherent user experience
- Advance the state of the art in embedded database performance, distributed execution, and system reliability
- Deepen your expertise in DuckDB and share knowledge across the company through mentorship and documentation
- Engage with our support team directly to debug, learn from usage patterns, and prioritize impactful improvements
- Improve systems holistically, anticipating architectural challenges and proactively addressing bottlenecks
- Mentor teammates and raise the bar for engineering practices across the team
- Tight collaboration with the academia, specifically the Databases Architecture group at the CWI, where vectorized execution and DuckDB were born (among other things)
Our take
In the increasingly complex landscape of data analytics, the challenges faced in managing and extracting meaningful insights from large datasets are on the rise. Conventional approaches, often involving distributed architectures and petabyte-scale data solutions, can be cumbersome, expensive, and less user-friendly for the majority of users who do not operate at such a large scale.
MotherDuck, recognizing this issue, has emerged as a solution provider with its serverless, user-friendly data analytics platform. Leveraging the power of the open-source database DuckDB, MotherDuck aims to simplify the scale-up approach to SQL analytics, offering a faster, more cost-effective alternative for the 95% of analysts who do not require petabyte-scale data solutions.
Having secured funding in 2023, the company is now well-positioned to further enhance its platform and expand its user base. As MotherDuck continues to collaborate closely with the DuckDB team and integrate user feedback for enhancements, the company is also poised to play a pivotal role in the evolution of serverless data analytics.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Sep 2023
$52.5m
SERIES B
Nov 2022
$35m
SERIES A
Total funding: $100m
Company benefits
- Unlimited Paid Time Off
- 401k plan
- Regular offsites in hub or exotic locations
Company HQ
Central Business District, Seattle, WA
Leadership
Jordan Tigani
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously the CPO at SingleStore. Prior to that, they were a Product Leader, Engineering Leader, and Founding Engineer on Google BigQuery.
Ryan Boyd
(Co-Founder)Currently a Partner at HyperGrowth as well as an Advisor at SparrowLabs. With a background in Coding, Leadership, and Management working at Google, Flux, and Databricks.
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