Staff Software Engineer - Developer Experience

Be Part of Building the Future

Dremio is the unified lakehouse platform for self-service analytics and AI, serving hundreds of global enterprises, including Maersk, Amazon, Regeneron, NetApp, and S&P Global. Customers rely on Dremio for cloud, hybrid, and on-prem lakehouses to power their data mesh, data warehouse migration, data virtualization, and unified data access use cases. Based on open source technologies, including Apache Iceberg and Apache Arrow, Dremio provides an open lakehouse architecture enabling the fastest time to insight and platform flexibility at a fraction of the cost. Learn more at www.dremio.com.

About the role

In this role you will get opportunities to design and implement CI/CD systems and developer productivity solutions. You will be responsible for analyzing software engineering practices, identifying areas of improvement, and implementing changes to increase efficiency and effectiveness across the organization.

Bring your industry experience to improve the efficiency and scale of Dremio’s infrastructure via innovation on tooling and methodologies. You should have empathy for developers, passion for engineering productivity, and experience delivering scalable distributed systems.

What you’ll be doing

• Solve problems for fellow Dremio engineers by understanding their needs and coming up with both short term workarounds and long term solutions

• Build pipelines for software and to increase developer productivity

• Comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a hyper-growth startup.

• Use both qualitative and quantitative metrics to determine priorities and measure effectiveness

• Evaluate & apply the latest tools, techniques and research insights to drive improvements into a world-class data analytics engine

• Own and automate local development workflows

• Analyze performance bottlenecks, root cause issues, file defects, follow up with developers, documentation and other teams on the resolution

• Responsible for keep the status of the development branches to green

• Regularly communicate leadership team with an assessment of the reliability, and robustness of systems

• Understand and reason about concurrency and parallelization to deliver scalability and performance in a multithreaded and distributed environment

• Actively participate in code and design reviews to maintain exceptional quality and deepen your understanding of the system architecture and implementation

What we’re looking for

• B.S. or M.S in Computer Science or in a related technical field

• 6+ years of experience on large scale distributed systems

• Demonstrable Knowledge and Experience with at least one cloud platform (AWS, Azure, GCP)

• Strong understanding of cloud networking and cloud architecture.

• Strong Experience in any of Java/C++/Python/Go

• Proficiency in Maven or similar build environments

• Hands on experience in pipeline automation using CI/CD tools like Jenkins

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code

• Experience with Terraform, BASH, Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes

• Drive design decisions with the ability to derive meaningful insights from the collected data, and articulate findings effectively

• Ability to create reusable components to automate repeatable, manual activities

• Ability to write technical reports, effectively summarizing key data

• Ability to present findings to across leadership and teams

• Passion for learning and then delivering solutions using latest technologies

• Strong Affinity for collaboration and teamwork

• Desire to work in a fast paced and agile development environment

Bonus points if you have

• Working knowledge in data lakes and data warehousing

• Proficiency with SQL

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What we value

At Dremio, we hold ourselves to high standards when it comes to People, Thinking, and Action. Our Gnarlies (that's what we call our employees) communicate with clarity, drive accountability, and are respectful towards each other. We confront brutal facts and focus on results while operating with a sense of urgency and building a "flywheel". People who like to jump in and drive momentum will thrive in our #GnarlyLife.

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