Core and Tools Lead

As a Core and Tools Lead, your role will involve the following responsibilities: - **Architect & Design**: - Define the technical vision and architecture, ensuring scalability, reliability, and efficiency. - **Performance Optimization**: - Lead efforts in query optimization, indexing strategies, and efficient data partitioning for distributed workloads. - **Database Internals & Citus Integration**: - Enhance PostgreSQL and Citus features to improve distributed data processing. - **Replication & High Availability**: - Design and implement robust replication, failover, and backup strategies. - **Security & Compliance**: - Ensure data integrity, encryption, and adherence to industry security standards. - **Tooling & Monitoring**: - Enhance database monitoring tools to improve observability. - **Collaboration**: - Work closely with developers, DevOps, and product teams to align database technology with business needs. - **Research & Innovation**: - Stay updated with industry trends in distributed databases, cloud-native architectures, and storage engines. Required Skills & Experience: - 8 plus years of hands-on experience and strong proficiency in C and C++ for developing database engines. - Working knowledge of Python and Perl is a plus. - Experience with query planning, indexing, and database performance tuning. - Deep understanding of replication, sharding, and high-availability architectures. - Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL performance monitoring tools. - Experience in database security, access control, and encryption. - Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to mentor engineering teams. Preferred Qualifications: - Contributions to PostgreSQL, Citus, or open-source database projects. - Knowledge of distributed consensus algorithms (Raft, Paxos). - Experience in parallel query execution. - Exposure to AI/ML-driven database optimizations.,