Principal C++ Software Engineer, Voltron Data
Data Engines
Enterprise support for Apache Arrow
Job no longer available
Enterprise support for Apache Arrow
101-200 employees
Job no longer available
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
- Experience with data processing engines or frameworks
- Experience in distributed systems
- Working with SQL and non-SQL systems and their computational abstractions
- Developing in C++, especially using modern C++
- Developing for multiple types of hardware
What the job involves
- Upon Joining:
- Spending time learning about the Apache Arrow compute primitives, compute intermediate representation, query parser and optimizer and other foundational components
- Diving into data processing engine architecture, how different components interact with each other and how data flows through a compute graph
- Learning and embracing the Apache development process
- Within a month:
- Profiling query runs for data engines and analyzing the execution telemetry to better understand how query engines works
- Diving deep into the various relational algebra algorithms to understand how they work and how they can be improved
- Working with the team on fixing bugs, implementing simple optimizations or code refactoring projects
- In addition, Principal Engineers will be expected to:
- Make small improvements to more sophisticated engine components such as resource management, task scheduling, and fault tolerance
- Within 6 months:
- Building new relational algebra components to expand SQL coverage or DataFrame functionality coverage
- Making small improvements to more sophisticated engine components such as resource management, task scheduling, and fault tolerance
- Helping systems improve by using more modular and composable components
- In addition, Principal Engineers will be expected to:
- Propose and implement core architecture improvements to engines components
- Within 12 months:
- Proposing and implementing core architecture improvements to engines components
- Working on challenging tasks such as language agnostic user defined functions, multi-query concurrency, and multi-tenancy
- Integrating engines with other components and features developed by other teams in the company to provide enterprise grade customer experiences
- Lead core technical projects improving the engine architecture and performance
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.
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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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