
Sr. Software Engineer
SingleStore3 months ago
Portugal (city not specified)Senior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Lead complex, cross-functional technical initiatives from conception through deployment.
- Build and own distributed, cloud-native managed-service systems across the control plane, data plane, operator, networking, storage, and customer portal.
- Drive engineering standards covering system design, code quality, testing, observability, and delivery pipelines.
- Solve mission-critical system problems with scalable, maintainable, and resilient solutions.
- Mentor junior team members, coordinate stakeholders, and contribute to process improvements.
- Communicate technical decisions and trade-offs, including their impact on performance, reliability, and business outcomes.
- Partner with product, design, customers, Sales, Marketing, and G&A teams to support product delivery and customer success.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience developing and debugging system-level software in languages similar to Golang or TypeScript.
- Strong understanding of and hands-on experience with distributed systems and cloud services.
- A track record of leading non-trivial projects from design through production rollout.
- Strong communication, mentoring, collaboration, and execution skills.
- A passion for building robust, maintainable, high-quality products.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience.
- Preferred: experience building cloud-native SaaS platforms.
- Preferred: experience with frontend web frameworks such as React.
- Preferred: prior experience mentoring engineers or leading technical projects.
Tech Stack
About SingleStore
SingleStore builds SingleStoreDB, a distributed SQL database that supports real-time transactions and analytics on the same engine for data-intensive applications. It sells enterprise licenses and a managed cloud service to developers and companies needing low-latency analytics on operational data. Founded in 2011 and headquartered in San Francisco, the company is privately held and has a majority investment from Vector Capital.