Principal Rust Software Engineer (Search & Database Engines)

Spice AI is a company focused on simplifying the development of data-driven AI applications. They are seeking a Principal Rust Software Engineer to lead database development and design high-performance database engine features within their open-source project.

Responsibilities:

• Work side-by-side with the founders as a leader and outstanding contributor in the Spice.ai open-source project
• Contribute to designing and building the Spice.ai Cloud Platform
• Take ownership of initiatives to improve our offerings and deliver exceptional developer experiences
• Work directly with enterprise customers and build with them to enable their scenarios
• Your first week - contribute a bug fix or minor improvement to the Spice.ai OSS project
• Your first month - ramp up and contribute meaningful improvements to the Spice.ai OSS project
• 30-60 days - take technical and engineering ownership of an entire feature area
• 60-90 days - propose and execute on aligned technical strategy going forward

Requirements:

• 2+ years professional Rust experience or 5+ yrs professional C/C++ experience
• Experience in designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production database-engines, distributed, and data systems
• A track record of strong design, architectural, engineering, and product decisions
• Excellent communication skills
• Ability to ramp up quickly and hit the ground running
• Ideally, experience contributing to open-source projects
• Experience with Apache infra, CNCF-stack, or cloud-native development