Senior Software Engineer, Timescale
Database Internals
Scalable SQL for time-series data
Open for applications
Scalable SQL for time-series data
101-200 employees
Open for applications
101-200 employees
Company mission
To empower everyone to analyze the past, monitor the present and predict the future.
Role
Who you are
- You should have strong systems-building experience and expertise in C, understand both query optimization and database systems and ideally already be a PostgreSQL expert (or show an interest and quick aptitude to become a PostgreSQL expert)
- Expertise in building industrial-strength software in C/C++ for large code bases
- 5+ years of engineering experience
- Experience in PostgreSQL internal development is highly desirable (but not required)
- Solid knowledge of SQL, query processing and database engines, concurrency control, data replication, and/or distributed systems
- Passionate about building highly reliable system software
- Experience with industry-standard software validation tools helpful, e.g., Jepsen, Valgrind, Coverity, pprof, etc
What the job involves
- You will design, code, and test the core of our PostgreSQL-based time-series database
- We focus on building a scalable, reliable, robust, usable, secure, and performant database
- Play a core role in helping to design and develop new database capabilities, including analytics, clustering and distributed operations, query and storage optimizations, and more
- Develop, test, and release new features and functionality from our database technical roadmap
- Continually improve, optimize, and test the existing functionality of TimescaleDB
- Improve infrastructure to evaluate and test database correctness and performance
- Work closely with our Cloud Engineering team to build a world-class experience for our Timescale customers
- Provide elevated technical assistance to high-value customers, gaining insight into the needs and experiences of our users
- Be an enthusiastic and personable teammate, receiving and providing code reviews and partnering and helping other engineers
Our take
Timescale helps developers and businesses manage and analyze big data sets that power large-scale operations. It offers this through TimescaleDB, its own open-source time-series SQL database which, unlike many competitors, is built with PostgreSQL. The product’s broad client applications include finance, logistics, and space.
Timescale landed $110 million in Series C investment in 2022, and became a unicorn at a valuation of over $1 billion. This signifies Timescale’s thriving business on top of the explosive rise of time-series data - the fastest growing database market segment - and promises a strong tailwind for the business.
The company serves over 500 customers and tens of thousands of other organizations use TimescaleDB in the community, including companies like IBM, Microsoft, Pfizer, and Samsung, among others.
Timescale is now focused on further growth by increasing investments in product, engineering, and R&D, and broadening its efforts in serving the Timescale community, customers, and developers. It is also hiring across multiple teams to continue scaling the company.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Feb 2022
$110m
SERIES C
May 2021
$40m
SERIES B
Total funding: $184.8m
Company benefits
- Flexible PTO & family leave
- Professional development & educational benefits
- Summer Fridays off in August
- Fully remote work from anywhere
- Stock options
- Monthly WiFi stipend
- FSA/Dependent FSA plans
- 401(k) retirement plan
- Premium insurance options for you and your family
Company values
- Be builders with integrity, mutual respect, and compassion
- Let the best idea win, no matter who says it
- Assume positive intent
- Be inclusive - communicate fearlessly
- Think like owners, not renters
- Be amazing but humble
- Be students in both work and life. Seek ways for self-improvement
Company HQ
Midtown East, New York, NY
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Leadership
Ajay Kulkarni
(CEO)Previous CEO and Co-Founder of computer software company Sensobi, and worked in product at GroupMe/Skyprosoft.
Michael Freedman
(CTO)Previous Research Assistant at multiple universities, including Berkeley and Stanford University. Co-founded Illuminics Systems, which was later acquired by Neustar. Current Advisor to Blockstack and Professor of Computer Science at Princeton University.
Diversity & Inclusion at Timescale
- We have people from all over the world with diverse backgrounds contributing to our fun-loving culture.
- We believe when people are included and feel appreciated, it creates a culture where people can do meaningful and impactful work.
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