Member of Technical Staff (Rust, Search & Database Engines)

Responsibilities

• Lead database development for Spice.ai OSS by designing and building high-performance engine features.
• Contribute to core technologies including Apache DataFusion, Apache Ballista, Arrow, Iceberg, Vortex, and duckdb-rs.
• Work side-by-side with founders as a key contributor to the open-source project.
• Help design and build the Spice.ai Cloud Platform.
• Take ownership of initiatives to improve developer experiences and work directly with enterprise customers to enable their use cases.

Requirements

• 2+ years of professional Rust experience OR 5+ years of professional C/C++ experience.
• Proven experience designing, implementing, scaling, and shipping production database engines, distributed systems, or data systems.
• Strong track record of making sound architectural, engineering, and product decisions.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to ramp up quickly in a fast-paced environment.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience contributing to open-source projects.
• Experience with Apache infrastructure, the CNCF stack, or cloud-native development.

About the Company

Spice AI simplifies the complexity of building data-driven AI applications by unifying query federation, search, and AI into a single runtime. Founded by Microsoft and GitHub alumni, we provide both open-source and fully managed cloud deployments to help developers build the next generation of intelligent software. We are backed by industry leaders including the CTO of Microsoft Azure and the CEO of GitHub.