Description
The Role
We are building TileDB Cloud, a disruptive and powerful universal data management platform. We handle everything that allows users and their organizations to unify all types of data, automate distributed analysis at planet scale, and securely share data and code across multiple programming languages and data science tools. TileDB Cloud operates as either a pay-as-you-go SaaS platform (https://cloud.tiledb.com) or as an on-premises deployment under the customer's full control.
How You Will Contribute
- Design and build a new distributed batch task graph feature, or add support for a new user-defined function capability or target language
- Implement support for a new cloud service provider (GCP, Azure)
- Optimize the horizontal scaling solution of our task infrastructure and REST service
- Implement self-service and customer-driven usability improvements (for example: global search API, performance improvements and refinements to access control, billing enhancements)
- Participate in on-call rotations (noon to midnight US Eastern time on rotating weekdays; full weekends approximately once per month)
Our Interview Process (~1 week)
As a startup, we place a high premium on capacity for driving projects to completion, so please be prepared to talk about previous projects demonstrating significant ownership. Our interview process consists of the following steps:
- 45 min call covering screening questions, a resume walkthrough, and your questions about the role and team
- ~1 hour technical assessment using CoderByte, containing a TileDB specific exercise with some open ended discussion questions (Note: may be skipped if demonstrable open source contributions or example work can be provided)
- 45 min call with the Cloud team's Engineering Manager
- 45 min call with our CTO/CEO
- Offer
Requirements
Prerequisites
- Willingness to work primarily in Go
- Extensive backend/REST service implementation -- EITHER using Go (Golang) OR using Python/Java/Kotlin/Scala/similar combined with expertise in a lower-level systems language such as C, C++, or Rust
- Experience with REST service design patterns
- Experience using Kubernetes in production service deployments
- Experience debugging and optimizing multi-language distributed applications (delve, gdb)
Bonus points
- Expertise in one of C (our bindings use CGo), C++, or Rust
- Python experience (we maintain, use, and write many Python API's)
- Distributed systems, database, language runtime (e.g. garbage collector), or kernel development
- Experience building a high-availability service on AWS or other Cloud providers
- Prior experience or strong interest in working at a startup
Location
Our headquarters are in Cambridge, MA, USA and we have a subsidiary in Athens, Greece. However, we are a remote-first company, and you will have the flexibility to work remotely as long as your residence is in the USA, EU, or Greece.
Hours
In order to ensure effective team collaboration, the expected core hours for US-based employees are 10 AM - 5 PM Eastern time; stand-ups and other recurring team meetings will be scheduled within this timeframe.
Benefits
- 100% medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage - for you and your dependents
- 12 weeks of paid parental leave - MA State Paid Family Leave guidelines, extended to all employees
- Stock options
- 3 weeks PTO with 11 public holidays
- Separate sick leave, personal health, bereavement, and jury duty time off allotments
- Flexible hours - we do our best to allow schedules that fit everyone's needs
- $260 monthly contribution towards commuter benefits
- Generous training budget - we love Ardan Labs' Ultimate Go!
About TileDB, Inc.
TileDB is the modern database that integrates all data modalities, code and compute in a single product.
As a database system, TileDB adapts its internal structure to optimize advanced applications across life sciences, geospatial research, generative AI, and other data science domains. TileDB is architected around multi-dimensional arrays, a powerful structure that adapts to capture any data modality — from vectors, tables and images, to ML models, 3D point clouds and population genomics datasets. TileDB provides an ecosystem of open-source tools, whereas its commercial product, TIleDB Cloud, offers a secure platform for distributed computations, interactive analysis, collaboration and integrations with a range of TileDB vertical solutions.
TileDB was spun out of MIT and Intel Labs in May 2017 and is backed by numerous world class investors.
Our headquarters are located in Cambridge, MA and we have a subsidiary in Athens, Greece. We offer the ability to work remotely, but the candidates must reside either in the US or in Greece. US candidates must be US citizens or permanent residents (green card holders), whereas Greek candidates must be Greek or EU citizens.
TileDB, Inc. is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer building a diverse and inclusive team.
