Rill Data is hiring a
Software Engineer, Backend

Summary

The job is for a Backend Engineer who will work on improving Apache Druid, contribute to its development, and help grow the community. The role involves building scalable ingestion systems, improving query functionality, and managing/scaling a SaaS offering. The company is remote-first and values diversity.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience building distributed fault-tolerant systems such as Cassandra, Kafka, Pinot, Clickhouse, ElasticSearch, MongoDb, Druid, or Zookeeper
• Experience developing high concurrency, performance-oriented Java systems
• Using standard tools to tune, profile, and debug Java Virtual Machines (JVM)
• A solid grasp of good software engineering practices such as code reviews and a deep focus on testability and quality
• Strong communication skills: ability to explain complex technical concepts to designers, support staff, and other engineers

Responsibilities

• Contributing to Open Source Apache Druid development
• Building scalable ingestion systems that can handle billions of events
• Improving Druid query functionality to improve performance and add new features
• Manage and Scale hosted Saas offering that provides fault tolerance and consistency in at scale for 1000s of nodes

Preferred Qualifications

• Previous experience contributing to Open source projects is a plus
• Exposure to Big Data systems such as Hadoop, Presto, Spark, ElasticSearch, or relational databases like MySQL or Postgres is a strong plus