Senior Software Engineer at SingleStore

<p>SingleStore engineers build the real-time data platform powering some of the world’s most demanding applications. Our cloud-native architecture enables high-performance transactional and analytical workloads at scale, and our teams ship production code continuously throughout the year.</p> <p>We operate in a fast-moving, highly collaborative environment where engineers own their work end-to-end and partner closely across Product, Sales, and Go-To-Market teams to deliver meaningful business impact.</p> <p><strong>Position Summary</strong></p> <p>We are seeking a Senior/Principal Software Engineer to join the Engineering team and play a critical role in designing and delivering core capabilities for SingleStore’s. This is a senior technical role with end-to-end ownership of large, release-defining projects at the intersection of distributed systems, cloud infrastructure, and database technology.</p> <p>As a Software Engineer, you will set technical direction, solve complex system-level problems, and act as a force multiplier across the organization. You will work closely with Product and customer-facing teams to ensure our platform meets the needs of both long-standing enterprise customers and new adopters.</p> <p>This role is ideal for an engineer who thrives on deep technical challenges, takes pride in building durable systems, and enjoys mentoring others while remaining hands-on.</p> <p>Note: This role is open across multiple levels. Final leveling (Senior, Staff, or Principal) will be determined based on experience, scope of impact, and demonstrated technical leadership throughout the interview process.</p> <p><strong>Role and Responsibilities</strong></p> <ul> <li>Lead technical design and decision-making for large, release-defining projects impacting SingleStore’s cloud platform.</li> <li>Design and implement new capabilities across networking, control plane, and managed service infrastructure, with main focus on our billing systems</li> <li>Solve complex, mission-critical system problems with solutions that are scalable, maintainable, and resilient.</li> <li>Collaborate closely with Product Management to translate customer and business requirements into robust technical solutions.</li> <li>Investigate and resolve difficult issues in production and development environments while balancing multiple responsibilities.</li> <li>Investigate, debug and fix issues with billing data synchronization.</li> <li>Contribute to data visualization dashboards.</li> <li>Mentor and guide engineers on system design, coding standards, and architectural best practices, raising the technical bar across the team.</li> </ul> <h4><strong>Your Experience</strong></h4> <ul> <li>6+ years of experience developing and debugging system-level software in Golang or similar language</li> <li>Familiarity with distributed systems managed via Kubernetes.</li> <li>Demonstrated ability to design and build highly reliable, high-performance system software.</li> <li>Experience working in environments where performance, scalability, and reliability are critical.</li> <li>Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.</li> </ul> <p><strong>Preferred Qualifications</strong></p> <ul> <li>Experience building cloud-native SaaS platforms.</li> <li>Experience working with frontend web frameworks like React.</li> <li>Background with cloud based metering and billing and generally accepted account practices.</li> </ul> <p>SingleStore delivers our cloud-native database with the speed and scale to power the world’s data-intensive applications. With a distributed SQL database that introduces simplicity to your data architecture by unifying transactions and analytics, SingleStore empowers digital leaders to deliver exceptional, real-time data experiences to their customers. SingleStore is venture-backed and headquartered in San Francisco with offices in Sunnyvale, Raleigh, Seattle, Boston, London, Lisbon, Bangalore, Dublin and Kyiv.&nbsp;</p> <p>Consistent with our commitment to diversity &amp; inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.</p>