Software Engineer, TigerGraph
Query Language
$130-160k
2-3 days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)
Scalable graph analytics platform
Open for applications
Scalable graph analytics platform
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$130-160k
2-3 days a week in office (Redwood City, CA)
101-200 employees
Company mission
To uncover meaningful, actionable, real-time insights from data.
Role
Who you are
- Education: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field
- Experience: 2+ years of software engineering experience with a focus on distributed system, compiler construction, or backend server
- Technical Skills: proficiency in Java, and/or C++, knowledge of performance profiling tools (e.g., gprof, perf) and techniques for optimizing system code
- Problem Solving: Demonstrated analytical prowess to pinpoint performance bottlenecks and architect scalable, high-performance system solutions.
- Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills
Desirable
- Experience with databases or large-scale analytics platform development
- Familiarity with memory management, concurrency control, and distributed system principles
- Contributions to open-source compiler or language projects
- Experience with containerization and CI/CD pipelines (Docker, Kubernetes, Jenkins/GitHub Actions)
What the job involves
- As a Query Language Software Engineer, you will take ownership of the evolution, performance, and feature expansion of GSQL — the powerful query language at the core of TigerGraph
- You will work closely with cross-functional teams to design, implement, and optimize language features, compiler enhancements, and runtime components that deliver industry-leading graph analytics capabilities
- Language Design & Implementation: Extend and refine the query language grammar, type system, and semantic analyzer to support new GQL standard and languages constructs
- Compiler Development: Build and optimize compiler passes (parsing, semantic analysis, query rewrite, code generation) for both performance and correctness
- Performance Optimization: Profile and tune query compilation and execution plan to achieve low-latency, high-throughput graph queries at scale
- Testing & Quality Assurance: Develop comprehensive unit tests, integration tests, and fuzz tests for language features and compiler components
- Cross-team Collaboration: Work with product managers, solutions engineering, technical support, and professional services to gather requirements, deliver robust language features, and solve customer issues
Our take
TigerGraph specialises in graph databases - which are powerful databases that can connect multiple data points at once. Purpose built to manage large amounts of highly connected data, flexible and easily scalable, this technology is becoming increasingly preferred over traditional relational databases.
Its substantial funding has enabled TigerGraph to expand, now with support for Google Cloud Platform workloads, putting TigerGraph in the unique position of being the only distributed graph database to be made available as SaaS on all major cloud platforms. In addition, connectors for Snowflake and Salesforce Tableau further enhance the integration options for TigerGraph. GraphStudio, a graphical user interface for TigerGraph DB brings together all aspects of the graph database analysis in one application created specifically for ease of use.
TigerGraph is currently the fastest graph database in the world, ahead of competitors such as Neo4j, ArangoDB and Redis, a position the business will no doubt be eager to maintain as it is a key differentiator.
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Insights
-55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2021
$105m
SERIES C
Sep 2019
$32m
SERIES B
Total funding: $194.2m
Company benefits
- Putting money in your bank with competitive pay and attractive equity
- The best health, dental and vision insurance to keep you healthy
- Catered lunches and a well-stocked kitchen
- Take time off when you want and recharge your batteries
- Fun environment with team outings and a recreation lounge, including ping-pong and foosball
Company HQ
Redwood Shores, Redwood City, CA
Leadership
Yu Xu
(CTO)Dr. Xu received their Ph.D in Computer Science and Engineering from the University of California San Diego. Prior to founding TigerGraph, Dr. Xu worked on Twitter’s data infrastructure for massive data analytics. Before that, they worked as Teradata’s Hadoop architect where they led the company’s big data initiatives.
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