Principal Software Engineer, PingCAP
Distributed Storage
$180-260k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
Open-source SQL database developer
Open for applications
Open-source SQL database developer
201-500 employees
Open for applications
$180-260k
+ Equity + Bonus
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To build the database of the future, made by developers, for developers.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
- 5+ years of experience in database, storage, and/or distributed system development
- Experience with TiKV or similar distributed key-value stores (e.g., RocksDB, etc.) is highly desirable
- Familiarity with cloud-native technologies(e.g., AWS, GCP, Azure infra) and container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes) is a plus
- Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to work independently as well as part of a team
- Strong communication skills and the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams
- A passion for learning and staying updated on emerging technologies and industry trends
What the job involves
- Design and implement core kernel features of TiKV to improve performance, scalability, and reliability
- Optimize data structures, algorithms, and concurrency mechanisms in TiKV to maximize throughput and minimize latency
- Collaborate with the open-source community to review and merge contributions to the TiKV codebase, ensuring adherence to best practices and coding standards
- Lead efforts to enhance TiKV's backup and restore capabilities at the kernel level, including but not limited to developing efficient snapshotting and Pitr mechanisms
- Analyze and improve TiDB's performance, stability, and scalability in the cloud environment
- Troubleshoot and resolve customers' critical issues such as performance, stability, or scalability
- Document design decisions, implementation details, and performance optimizations in technical specifications, design documents, and code comments
- Stay updated on the latest developments in distributed systems research and industry trends, and contribute insights and expertise to inform our technology roadmap
- Mentor junior engineers and help to grow the whole team's technical capability
Our take
Frustrations with the available database solutions are what inspired PingCAP. When three infrastructure engineers got together, their aim was to eliminate the issues with management, scalability and maintenance of databases by creating their own open source distributed database.
With worldwide contributions from like-minded developers, the cloud-based NewSQL database TiDB was created. It soon gained great popularity and so, being open source, is constantly being enhanced.
With the creation of a product that eradicates the problems faced when attempting to scale up traditional relational databases, a wealth of data migration tools and no vendor lock-in, TiDB is an attractive proposition for businesses that need future flexibility. Notable clients include China Zheshang Bank, PatSnap and leading Asian logistics company Ninja Van.
With the backing of $270 million Series D funding in 2020, TiDB continues to grow, and a portfolio of complementary products is in development. It also gained positive publicity from its receiving the award for Open Source Data Solution Provider of the Year from the Data Breakthrough Awards 2024.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2020
$270m
SERIES D
Sep 2018
$50m
SERIES C
Total funding: $341.6m
Company benefits
- Competitive Compensation and Stock Options
- Health & Wellness
- Generous Company Holidays and Paid Time Off
- Fun Team Building Activities and Awesome Swags
- Remote Friendly Distributed Workforce
- Tailored Growth Path with Mentorship
Company values
- Customer success
- Deliver results with excellence
- Be open
- Be an owner
- Respect and empower people
- Think big, think long and think different
Company HQ
Sunnyvale, CA
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Leadership
Max Liu
(Co-founder & CEO)Max worked in software and system infrastructure for over a decade, working at Wandou Labs. They co-founded PingCap in 2015, serving since as CEO.
Dongxu Huang
(Co-founder & CTO)Dongxu interned at Microsoft before spending 3 years as a NetEase Youdao Senior Software Engineer and working at Wandou Labs. They left in April 2015 to co-found PingCAP.
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