Staff Software Engineer, Query Engine [Rust]
Komodo Health1 month ago
Base Salary
$196k - $265k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and optimize Burrow’s distributed query execution, indexing, storage, APIs, and serving layers.
- Improve query latency, throughput, memory usage, storage access, reliability, observability, and cost efficiency at fleet scale.
- Design query APIs, semantic layers, and serving patterns for AI products, agents, and LLM-driven workloads.
- Expand query capabilities to support provider data, new query types, and top-K analytics.
- Lead migrations from legacy query systems to Burrow without disrupting customers.
- Partner with data engineering, product, platform, data science, quality, and application teams on production-grade designs and delivery.
- Define data quality checks, validation, lineage, monitoring, alerting, and operational readiness practices.
- Lead multi-quarter technical initiatives, make architecture trade-offs, mentor engineers, and raise standards for system design, testing, documentation, and code quality.
Requirements
- Experience writing high-performance systems code in Rust, Erlang, or C++ and operating services in production.
- Deep knowledge of analytical query engines, columnar formats, indexing and pruning, compression, compaction, query planning, and execution.
- Experience building on or extending engines such as Pinot, Druid, ClickHouse, DuckDB, DataFusion, or Trino.
- Ability to design data models, serving patterns, platform components, and architectures for complex, high-volume data environments.
- Track record of setting technical direction across teams, leading design reviews, mentoring senior engineers, and driving multi-quarter architecture decisions.
- Experience building query or serving infrastructure for AI/ML systems, LLM-driven products, or high-volume real-time traffic.
- Experience profiling and tuning distributed systems across memory, CPU, I/O, NVMe, caching, partitioning, and failure handling.
- Strong technical communication skills across engineering, product, data science, AI, and executive stakeholders.
- Hands-on use of AI tools such as ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, or Claude.
- Preferred experience includes healthcare data, warehouse-to-engine migrations involving Redshift or Snowflake, large-scale data architecture, Vortex, and applied AI or agentic workflows.
Benefits
- Open to remote or hybrid work.
- Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance.
- Flexible time off and holidays.
- 401(k) with company match.
- Disability insurance and life insurance.
- Leaves of absence in accordance with applicable laws and company policy.
- May be eligible for performance-based bonuses and equity awards.
Tech Stack
Categories
BackendData Engineering
About Komodo Health
Komodo Health builds a healthcare data platform and analytics applications, anchored by its Healthcare Map of de-identified U.S. patient journeys. Life sciences companies, payers, providers, and public health teams use its SaaS tools and services to study treatment patterns, size markets, and identify gaps in care. Founded in 2014 and headquartered in New York, the company is privately held.