Senior Software Engineer, Yellowbrick
Office located in Mountain View, CA
Data warehouse for distributed clouds
Open for applications
Data warehouse for distributed clouds
101-200 employees
Open for applications
Office located in Mountain View, CA
101-200 employees
Company mission
To simplify data warehousing by making Data Warehouses quick to deploy and simple to manage.
Role
Who you are
- You’re a computer scientist who loves algorithms, massively parallel programming, multicore architecture and performance optimizations
- You find compilers, parsers, grammars and compilers interesting, you find parallel sorting, aggregation, indexing and joining algorithms interesting, have a flair for creative solutions to generating more efficient machine instructions, and hopefully you’ve worked in one or more of these areas
- You like Big Data algorithms that work at scale and concurrency, embrace massive parallelism of algorithms in distributed systems and don’t get scared by NP complete problems or dynamic programming
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Computer Engineering. Master’s degree is a plus
- 6-10 years of experience developing and shipping software that users are successfully running in production
- High performance parallel, distributed systems
- Fundamental computer science – as many of these as possible:
- Hashing, sorting, searching, aggregation
- Indexing
- Distributed database algorithms
- File systems
- Operating systems – threading, scheduling, memory management
- TCP and RDMA networking
- Multi-core programming and memory models
- Compilers – front end, internals or back-end
- SQL and relational databases
- Internals of open source or commercial databases
- Strong knowledge in one of more of C,C++ or Java
- Assembly language, including vector processing
- Java application server experience
- Working knowledge of SQL is a plus
- Experience with cloud APIs and cloud technologies on any public cloud provider (AWS, Azure or GCP) or Kubernetes private clouds is a plus
- Strong problem-solving abilities and technical leadership
- Excellent communication skills and the ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
- Strong attention to detail and a passion for building reliable and scalable systems
- Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide junior engineers, fostering an environment of learning and collaboration
What the job involves
- We are looking for a motivated software engineer to work in our core database team in areas such as query execution, performance optimization, cluster management, addition of semantic search capabilities and efficient storage of document embeddings
- You'll have the opportunity to work in all areas of our software stack which includes almost every aspect of computer science - from hardware to operating systems and user interfaces and everything in between
- Design, develop, test and ship improvements to our high-performance database
- Help troubleshoot and fix issues encountered in the field
Our take
Yellowbrick is quickly providing a new generation of ultra-high-performance data warehouse capabilities for large enterprises. Whilst the conventional old-school method for storing data relied on physical warehouses, and recent innovations have turned most companies to the Cloud, Yellowbrick Data has introduced a hybrid solution.
The technology is a step function improvement compared to legacy solutions, helping modern enterprises digest and interpret massive data workloads in a fraction of the time at a fraction of the cost.
More and more large companies are using Yellowbrick Data, adding to an already diversified customer base from multiple industries in financial services, hedge funds, and insurance. Yellowbrick Data is unique in the sense that its flexible according to an individual business needs. With a customer retention rate of 150% this indicates that Yellowbrick Data is the innovation leader in modern data warehousing.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$75m
SERIES C
Jun 2019
$81m
SERIES C
Total funding: $251.2m
Company HQ
Evergreen Park, Palo Alto, CA
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Leadership
Neil Carson
(CEO)More than 20 years of deep experience in technology, including at as Chief Application Architect at Dell and CTO of Fusion-io.
People progressing
Joined as a Technology Consultant, promoted within 6 months to Cloud Operations Engineer. Have been working as a Senior Manager of Cloud Operations since November 2019.
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